For the sports fan, this guide offers fascinating facts and tidbits on baseball, football, basketball, hockey, the Olympic Games, tennis, figure skating, soccer, and more. It contains special sections on women's sports, young people's sports, and the Special Olympics, and includes listings of winners of the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, and other major competetions.
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For the sports fan, this guide offers fascinating facts and tidbits on baseball, football, basketball, hockey, the Olympic Games, tennis, figure skating, soccer, and more. It contains special sections on women's sports, young people's sports, and the Special Olympics, and includes listings of winners of the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, and other major competetions.
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Mike McGovern is a noted East Coast journalist, and currently is the sportswriter for the Allentown Times. He is the author of The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Athletes and, with his wife, Susan Shelly, The Quotable Athlete. He lives with his family in Shillington, PA.
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The concept of the book is nice, and the authors are quite funny, but the book deals only with american sports. If by chance the author does write about other sportts played the world over, he mentions only american players. If you're looking to learn something about non american sports, please skip this one.
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Baseball was America's first great sport, although ironically, the game was developed in England as an offshoot of cricket. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first great sport, camel spin, college basketball history, tennis history, car victories, gold medal game, including playoffs, open era, winningest coach, major championships, penalty minutes, season championship, quotable quotes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sports Strategies, Super Bowl, United States, World Cup, World Series, Grand Slam, Hall of Fame, Los Angeles, Formula One, San Francisco, Stanley Cup, Winston Cup, The Least You Need, Michael Jordan, Icon Sports Media, Game Time, North Carolina, American League, Babe Ruth, Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics, Green Bay Packers, British Open, Major League Baseball New!
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