Sports Chapters

Fun to watch and fun to play, sporting activities have always had a key role in public life. These sports-related stories take us back to the ancient Olympics and forward to the days of a "Moneyball" approach to baseball.

Walter "The Haig" Hagen is one of the greatest golfers during the Great-Depression era.

Learn what happens to the players and staff after the A's 2002 season.

Only free men can participate in Olympic athletics; single women can watch, but married women are banned under penalty of death.

JFK explains the reason Americans are in Vietnam is because if it falls under Communist rule then other countries will follow.

Drawing large crowds of spectators, the first women's professional team forms in 1875.

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