Handball
Subtitle: The Story of Wales' First National Sport
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781784613761
Subjects: Handball; Sports, great britain
Description: 200 years ago handball was a national obsession. People travelled to watch matches and won or lost fortunes through illegal gambling. Welsh player/official Kevin Dicks' meticulous research traces the long history of this folk sport from its medieval churchyard roots, through its glory years in the 18th and 19th centuries to its modernisation today.