(Part 2) Best sports history books according to redditors

The second oldest continuously running Cup tournament in the world is the US Open Cup. The 101st US Open Cup Final will be held this coming Tuesday (Sept 16), between Philadelphia Union and Seattle Sounders.

For most of its history, the US Open Cup has been an amateur tournament. During the 1920s, professional teams competed, but disagreements between the league and the then-USFA over Cup participation, combined with the stock market crash and great depression, led to a collapse of professional soccer in the US in the early '30s.

MLS teams have competed in the US Open Cup since the league's first season in 1996. Teams in the old NASL never participated.

The most successful teams in the competition have been Bethlehem Steel FC, a professional team in the 1920s, and Maccabi Los Angeles, an amateur team that dominated the 1970s.

Bethlehem Steel was a strong enough team in their heyday to ignite a diplomatic row over their "poaching" of players from Manchester United and other English teams.

In the MLS era, an MLS team has won the Cup every year except 1999, when the semi-pro Rochester Rhinos won, upsetting four MLS teams in the process. The most successful MLS team in the tournament are the Chicago Fire with four Cups, though Seattle has the chance to win their fourth Cup this year.

It's an absolutely bizarre tournament, but its history is more or less the history of the sport in the US. This year I saw AC Schwaben, an amateur club in the Chicago suburbs that has been around since 1926, take on Dayton Dutch Lions, a semi-pro club from Ohio that featured the grandson of Cruyff (who, other than a nifty touch or two, was not that good).

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Also, come back on Tuesday night. A Cup final is always an entertaining match.

I really enjoyed the book "The History of Fly Fishing in Fifty Flies"

Soccer is a British word that British people now hate because of petty hate of Americans.

The term "soccer" is a shortened version of "association football" that was used by rich British kids at prep schools who liked being trendy and using shortened versions of things. They also called Rugby Football "rugger"

Soccer especially gained popularity in places where there was already a local version of football, like the US and Australia.

When famous Europeans started playing in the US in like the 70s, Europeans found out the yanks called it soccer, they started not using the term as as much.

https://www.amazon.com/Its-Football-Soccer-Vice-Versa-ebook/dp/B07C9DJFKD

https://www.amazon.de/Migration-Integration-Sport-Zivilgesellschaft-German/dp/3531179381

Es gibt so etwas tolles das sich Suchmaschine nennt. Kling komisch, ich weiß, aber probiers mal aus.

And if you want any further insight after that, this is a must read. The author is featured in the documentary.

I have so much to say, but very little patience.

Buy/Download/Obtain this book "Choque - The Untold Story of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil" It has multiple volumes, I think the most important is 1856-1949

Available here: https://www.amazon.com/Choque-Untold-Jiu-Jitsu-Brazil-1856-1949/dp/1491226366

Expensive, yes, worth it, IMO, yes.

https://www.amazon.com/Choque-Untold-Jiu-Jitsu-Brazil-1856-1949/dp/1491226366

I'm gonna refer you to another book on that one: Beau Dure's Long Range Goals. There was some pretty good justification for doing what they did at the time, especially in light of the fact that the US had tried doing exactly what you're describing before with no success.

I guess I know what to wish for this year for Xmas then :)

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https://www.amazon.com/Internazionale-Milano-110th-Anniversary-1908-2018/dp/885723827X

The Best Game Ever Played (I think that's the title, the one about the Colts Giants NFL Championship Game from the 50s) might be a good one. I haven't read it personally, but I've heard good things about it, and it's probably going on my Christmas list this year.

[Here we go] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003PCJE3E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_4F.rzbFMHB6KB)

I would recommend Stone Crusade by John Sherman. It is a good history of Bouldering, a fun road trip story, and a reasonable guidebook all wrapped into a well written package.

Also a book.

There's a really good book about the 1979 Daytona 500

Great American Gamble

There's a great book by David Walsh, the Sunday Times sports writer who hounded Lance all along and was shouted down and marginalised for daring to criticise and remain skeptical of him, called 'Seven Deadly Sins'. Good reading for anyone interested.

Lol imagine drawing Trump being able to jump let alone dunk on anyone with enough athleticism to play horseshoes

[A MUST GET] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1412712009?pc_redir=1413691686&robot_redir=1) I sadly lost my copy of this book...I don't know if it has been updated recently, but you've probably seen most of the races it doesn't get to. Super interesting and comprehensive, but still interesting and a quick read if you want to make it one. It greatly enhanced my childhood.

We actually sell this in the bookstore where I work.

Though it's not really a reading book, I suggest you take a look at this.

In addition to the other books mentioned here, Among the Thugs and Winning at All Costs are both really good.

Also check this one out....Stone Crusade

Link to book on Amazon

Great book to read by Hugh Herr, who it turns out is now doing really cool stuff with prosthetics at MIT I believe.

Second Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr https://www.amazon.com/dp/0811717941/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_HOdvCbY6TB2NS

Rebels with a Cause

http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Cause-Alternative-Mainstream-ebook/dp/B00A0JJW82/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374252548&sr=8-1&keywords=rebels+with+a+cause+arsenal

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Machine-Liverpool-Players-Stories/dp/1780576919/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1537484130&sr=8-8&keywords=liverpool+fc+books

https://www.amazon.com/Liverpool-FC-Seven-Year-Liverpools-Championship-ebook/dp/B00ARHX99A/ref=sr_1_33?ie=UTF8&qid=1537484225&sr=8-33&keywords=liverpool+fc+books

https://www.amazon.com/Bill-Shankly-Much-Important-Biography-ebook/dp/B0050OM414/ref=sr_1_58?ie=UTF8&qid=1537484289&sr=8-58&keywords=liverpool+fc+books

https://www.amazon.com/44-Years-Same-Bird-Liverpudlian-ebook/dp/B004GKLXPQ/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1537484502&sr=8-2-fkmr1&keywords=liverpool+fc+books+with+the+same+bird

These are the ones that I recommend, enjoy

I don't know which book is better

It's fitting that "Republicans Buy Sneakers Too" comes out Tuesday: https://www.amazon.com/Republicans-Buy-Sneakers-Too-Politics/dp/0062878530