Have you ever wondered what people did for fun throughout history? Edward Brooke-Hitching began to wonder the same thing while flipping through an eighteenth-century German book on hunting, and found a bygone sport in which German nobles launched foxes into the air. This random discovery of a game that slipped through the mainstream historical cracks led him to wonder: how many other sports have been left out of modern history accounts? Now, Brooke-Hitching shares his hilarious journey to discover the curious recreations contrived by mankind that have long since gone extinct (for good reason).Compiling more than 100 of the most puzzling, cruel, and ludicrous games that have ever been played, including Aerial Golf, Hidden Hunting, Ski Ballet, Eel Pulling, and many more, Brooke-Hitching chronicles an entertaining romp through forgotten leisurely pastimes that history wanted you to forgetāand that you definitely shouldn't try at home.An illuminating gift book filled with acerbic humor and charming illustrations, Fox Tossing is sure to be enjoyed by manyāand will let you take solace in knowing that at least your grandfather wasn't the genius who invented "Tortoise Racing, " or any of the other games too stupid, or too harmful to withstand the test of time.
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Fox Tossing
And Other Forgotten and Dangerous Sports, Pastimes, and Games
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- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Aerial Golf
- The Aquatic Tripod
- Auto Polo
- Baby Boxing
- Balloon Jumping
- Barking Off Squirrels
- Barrel Jumping
- Baseball with Cannon
- Battle-Ball
- Bear-Baiting and the Bear Garden
- Beat the Cat Out of the Barrel
- Bird-Batting
- Bloodless Dueling
- Bone Skating
- Bow-and-Arrow Golf
- Boxing on Horseback
- Bull-Running
- Car vs. Bull
- Cat-Burning
- Centrifugal Bowling
- Chasse Aux Toiles
- Cheetah Greyhound Racing
- Chunkey
- Close-Quarters Bear Combat
- Cock-Shying and Other Poultry-Based Blood Sports
- Codeball
- Competitive Trumpet-Blowing
- Copsole-Pulling
- Cricket on Horseback
- Donkey-Boxing
- Duck-Baiting
- Dwile Flonking
- Eel-Pulling
- Fiery Kites
- Firework Boxing
- Flagpole-Sitting
- Flyting
- Fox Tossing
- The Game of the Bridge and Other City Battles
- Goldfish-Swallowing
- The Great Tricycle Regatta
- Hidden Hunting
- Hopping
- Hot Cockles
- Hot Hasty PuddingāEating, Jingling, and Other Sports of the Fair
- Human-Fishing
- Hunting with Cheetahs
- Hunting Ye Otter
- Ice Tennis
- The Ice Velocipede
- Italian Cat Head Butting
- Kottabos
- Last Couple in Hell
- Lion-Baiting
- Man-Baiting
- Man vs. Woman Combat
- Mob Football
- Monkey-Fighting
- The Monowheel
- Naumachiae
- New York Bullfighting
- Octopus-Wrestling
- Ållamaliztli
- OlympicsāForgotten Events
- One-Legged Cricket
- Pedestrianism
- People-Throwing
- Phone Booth Stuffing
- Phosphorescent Golf
- Pig-Running
- Pig-Sticking
- Porcupine Hunting
- Puntgunning
- The Quintain
- Racing Deer
- Ratting
- The Royal Game
- Ski Ballet
- Stilts vs. Runners vs. Horses
- Stoolball
- Tip-Cat
- Tortoise Racing
- Tuho
- Universal Football
- Venatio
- Viking Sports
- Vinkensport
- Walking-Stick Fighting
- Waterfall-Riding
- Wolfing
- Acknowledgments
- About Edward Brooke-Hitching
- Select Bibliography
- Copyright
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