Squash: A History of the Game
By James Zug
Published by Scribner in September 2003, Squash has a foreword written by the late George Plimpton. The first history of the game in the United States, Squash incorporated every aspect of the popular sport. Invented by English schoolboys in the 1860s, squash first came to the United States in 1884 when St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire built four open-air courts. The game took hold in Philadelphia, where players founded the U.S. Squash Racquets...