It’s surprising to learn that John Astley Cooper first proposed what has become the Commonwealth Games in 1891: 5 years before the Modern Olympics. The plan was to hold a sports competition every four years “as a means of increasing goodwill and understanding of the British Empire”. Committees were set up throughout the Empire to […]
England at the FIFA World Cup over the years – it’s certainly been a journey! From crushing defeat to glorious victory…to who knows what the 2026 tournament will bring. We’ve still got the fun and great hope of not knowing at this point. The first World Cup took place in Uruguay in 1930. FIFA chose […]
Was Jim Thorpe the greatest athlete in the world? King Gustav V of Sweden certainly thought so. He described Thorpe thus as he handed him two gold medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Jim Thorpe was a legendary Native American sportsman, who lived from 1888 – 1953. He was a Sac and Fox Native American, […]
From the start of cricket history, the sport has had a great history of signed cricket memorabilia, often in the form of official, signed team sheets. As a result, Sportspages has had much pleasure over the years in finding, stocking, selling and then finding some more team sheets from the beginning of cricket to now: many of these are amazing cricket memorabilia gems. We love the sense of history in the 1912, Australian team sheet from their Ashes tour to England...or the 1932 cricket team sheet, signed fully by the first India cricket team to tour England. These items of signed sports memorabila cover most international teams over the years and plenty of key domestic cricket teams too
