Sports Illustrated Almanac 2010 [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2009 | Series: Sports Illustrated Almanac

America's favorite sports almanac, now in its 19th year, is as fact-filled and fun as ever. Packed with stats, standings, and historical data from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's award-winning staff, this is the essential reference book for every fan.

• Includes the 2009 baseball playoffs and World Series.
• 88-page pro football section incudes year-by-year NFL standings back to 1920 as well as game recaps for Super Bowls I to XLIII.
• Year-in-review calendar revisits the highlights and low points of 2009.
• Annual results from many professional and amateur sports, including Little League baseball, lacrosse, volleyball, and many more.
• Year-by-year and 2009 results from NASCAR, IRL, and Formula One.

AND MUCH MORE

Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Sports Illustrated; Original edition (December 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1603208267
• ISBN-13: 978-1603208260
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.5 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #599,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very mediocre, March 19, 2010

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Loregnum - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sports Illustrated Almanac 2010 (Paperback)

I bought this because there doesn't seem to be an ESPN version recapping 2009 (at least not yet) and I am a big time stat junky so I figured it would be worth having.

This book is very mediocre. It is missing a lot of info that is there in the ESPN version of books (why are there only stats for grand slam performance in tennis? How about overall tournament wins and money earned), has funky stat recording (why include seasonal MLB pitching stats from the late 1800s/early 1900s when the game was totally different then?) and there are A LOT of grammatical/spelling errors as well as statistical errors.

The only positive of this book was that it was cheap but really, it is not worth owning.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No Winter Olympics?, March 8, 2010

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J. Meyers (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sports Illustrated Almanac 2010 (Paperback)

No section for the Winter Olympics in a Winter Olympics year. Seriously. There's a 36-page section titled "Olympics", and a picture of Vancouver in the introduction, but the rest of the section is devoted entirely to the Summer Games. Did they forgot to include the Winter Games or did they deliberately leave it out? Stupid either way. Otherwise, this almanac is thoroughly mediocre: Not enough sports covered, and that coverage shallow except for the major U.S. pro and college sports. A sports almanac should provide a ton of sports-record coverage, but you won't find much more here than you would in a regular almanac. Disappointing.

5.0 out of 5 stars He loved it, October 23, 2010

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Janet Taylor "Janet P. Taylor" (Charleston, WV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sports Illustrated Almanac 2010 (Paperback)

My husband loves anything sports related. As a prisoner, he enjoys all of the books I send thru Amazon. He looks forward to the Almanac every year. All the information in one place cuts down on the magazines being saved in such a small space.