Another classic in the Library of Wales series.

Sport is one of our consuming passions, and its literature is rich and extensive. This original and enjoyable anthology brings together for the very first time the finest writing on Welsh sport by some of our most acclaimed authors - novelists, short-story writers, journalists, historians and poets.

Its wide-ranging selection of fiction, non-fiction and verse reminds us that sport, like literature, is not only about itself but also about life, and sometimes death, and the human meaning of both.

Including writing by Richard Burton, Dylan Thomas, Dannie Abse, Richard Llewelyn, Leslie Thomas, Alexander Cordell, Lewis Davies, Max Boyce, Jon Arlott, Eddie Butler, John Toshack, Rupert Moon, Gerald Davies

Gareth Williams is Professor of History in the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Wales at the University of Glamorgan. He has written and broadcast extensively on the social history of sport and music, and his books include Fields of Praise (with Dai Smith), 1905 And All That, and Valleys of Song: Music and Society in Wales 1840-1914.