How the game was played

Emeritus Professor of Sports History, University of Stirling; Visiting Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University; Special Projects Editor, International Journal of the History of Sport. Wray Vamplew's classic book on the development of commercialism and professionalism in sport, Pay Up and Play the Game, won the inaugural North American Society of Sports History book of the year prize and his research generally has gained awards from the Australian Sports Commission and the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport.

Contents: Introduction. Practising Sports History: Analysing the Game: Evidence and Knowledge in Sports History. Sporting Conduct: Sports Crowd Disorder in Britain 1870-1914: Causes and Controls; Bulimic Practices and Alcohol Consumption: Performance Enabling and Performance Enhancing Mechanisms in Nineteenth-Century British Sport; 'Remembering Us Year After Year': The Glasgow Charity Cup 1876-1966. Field Sports: Sports Without Rules: Hunting, Shooting and Fishing in Edwardian; Captains Courageous: the Gentleman Rider in British Horseracing 1866-1914. Horseracing: Reduced Horsepower: The Jockey Club and the Regulation of British Horseracing; A Modern Sport? 'From Ritual to Record' in British Horseracing (with Joyce Kay); Golf: Women to the Fore: Accommodation and Resistance at the British Golf Club before 1914; The Rough and the Fairway: Processes and Problems in Ryder Cup Team Selection 1927-2006; Child Work or Child Labour? The Caddie Question in Edwardian Golf. Sporting Heritage: Facts and Artefacts: Sports Museums and Sports Historians; Taking a Gamble or a Racing Certainty: Sports Museums and Public Sports History.