Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century
Author: Tim Crothers
Publisher: Time Home Entertainment
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781883013707
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One Hundred and One Greatest Athletes of the Century
Author: Will Grimsley
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780917360091
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Author: Bert Randolph Sugar
Publisher: Birch Lane Press
Published: 1993-06-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781559721790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author of over 50 sports books, TV sportscaster, and publisher of Boxing Illustrated has selected athletes whom he considers the best who ever played throughout the history of sports and ranked them according to their achievements. Photos and vignette biographies throughout.
The Sports 100
Author: Associated Press
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781582612065
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume recalls, in stories and photographs, the most memorable sports figures and feats of the twentieth century, according to the Associated Press. The athletes are presented in alphabetical order.
An American Odyssey
Author: Bob Mathias
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1613212674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bob Mathias is a true 20th-century American hero. The youngest man ever to win the Olympic decathlon gold medal, and the only American ever to win it twice, Mathias was also a movie star, U.S. Marine, writer, four-term congressman, and architect of America's Olympic renaissance. In addition, he was recently named by both ESPN and the Associated Press as one of the century's 100 greatest athletes. In his autobiography, this American original offers incisive comments on many of the famous people and events he witnessed during his long and distinguished career of public service. He talks about the old-fashioned values he grew up with, and how they still have a place in a changing culture. He discusses the current state of athletics, what colleges should be doing for their scholarship athletes but aren't, the total collapse of "amateurism" worldwide, and the million-dollar salaries being paid to mediocre athletes. He also offers practical, down-to-earth solutions to many of the problems he sees facing not only athletics, but also our country and the world. This book is a lively, well-written account of a unique life, lived to its fullest potential, and includes some never-before-published pictures that can only be described as collectors' items.
The 100 Greatest American Athletes
Author: Martin Gitlin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-10-15
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 153811027X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, Martin Gitlin has ranked the 100 greatest American athletes across all sports, from football and baseball to the decathlon and skateboarding. Taken into consideration are the athletes’ achievements, mental toughness, versatility, athleticism, and overall impact on their sport.
The Sports 100
Author: Associated Press
Publisher: Sports Publishing
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781683581666
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The 100 Greatest Athletes of All Time
Author: Bert Randolph Sugar
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780806516141
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Profiles the top one hundred athletes in baseball, basketball, boxing, football, and other sports; ranks them in accordance with their achievements; and includes a large number of accompanying illustrations.
NFL Century
Author: Joe Horrigan
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2019-08-27
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1635653592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the National Football League, timed to coincide with the NFL’s 100th anniversary season. “I can think of no one better qualified—or more enthusiastic—to chronicle the National Football League’s century-long history than Joe Horrigan.”—Marv Levy, Hall of Fame NFL coach The NFL has come a long way from its founding in Canton, Ohio, in 1920. In the hundred years since that fateful day, football has become America’s most popular and lucrative professional sport. The former scrappy upstart league that struggled to stay afloat has survived a host of challenges—the Great Depression and World War II, controversies and scandals, battles over labor rights and competition from rival leagues—to produce American icons like Vince Lombardi, Joe Montana, and Tom Brady. It is an extraordinary and entertaining history that could be told only by Joe Horrigan, former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and perhaps the greatest living historian of the NFL, by drawing upon decades of NFL archives. Compelling, eye-opening, and authoritative, NFL Century is a must-read for NFL fans and anyone who loves the game of football. Advance praise for NFL Century “Joe Horrigan takes the reader on a delightful tour of the seminal moments of the NFL in the past one hundred years—the players, owners, coaches, executives, and historical events that made the game of football the most popular in America. It’s a wonderful walk down memory lane for any football fan, young or old.”—Michael Lombardi, author of Gridiron Genius “There is no one—and I mean no one—who knows more about the history of the NFL than Joe Horrigan, the heart and soul of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. As the gold standard of sports leagues celebrates its one hundredth season, it’s appropriate that the gold standard of sports historians has written NFL Century, an entertaining and educational journey.”—Gary Myers, New York Times bestselling author of Brady vs Manning
Out of the Shadows
Author: David K. Wiggins
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2008-02-01
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 1557288763
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American male and female athletes from the nineteenth century to today. Here are twenty insightful biographies that furnish perspectives on the changing status of these athletes and how these changes mirrored the transformation of sports, American society, and civil rights legislation. Some of the athletes discussed include Marshall Taylor (bicycling), William Henry Lewis (football), Jack Johnson, Satchel Paige, Jesse Owens, Joe Lewis, Alice Coachman (track and field), Althea Gibson (tennis), Wilma Rudolph, Bill Russell, Jim Brown, Arthur Ashe, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Venus and Serena Williams.
