Geography and the Methodological Ballpark: Putting Place into Sports History

This short reflection highlights five aspects of geographical methodological practice which together capture a flavour of how place is being researched, and which offer interesting challenges for historians of sport. A willingness to innovate, to rethink mapping, to enact methods on the move, to deal with big and crowd-sourced data and to adopt playful, positioned approaches are flagged here. Historians of sport can usefully place their research and learn from our diverse geographical experience!