The Complete Idiot's Guide to the History of Hockey
Author: Malcolm G. Kelly
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780130882592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Malcolm G. Kelly
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780130882592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Malcolm G. Kelly
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780028642574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Hockey will cover the complete history of hockey, including: in the beginning-bandy and shinny are the precursors to what would become hockey; full-blown hockey invented in...Dartmouth, N.S.; How hockey hit the lower forty-eight; the first Winter Olympics; the birth of the NHL; the 70's-goons to the left, goons to the right-hockey's darkest days; the rise of Lemieux, Gretzky, Messier, and the modern hockey hero; hockey comes out from behind the Iron Curtain; and inroads women and minorities have made into the sport. The authors have also included four Top 10 lists in the back of the book, including players, teas, moments, and influential people in hockey history.
Author: Murray Greig
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780130882585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mike McGovern
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2001-09-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780028639635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Malcolm G. Kelly
Publisher: Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice Hall Canada
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780130146588
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Randi Druzin
Publisher: Alpha Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780130899408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Gertrude Ederle's historic swim across the English Channel to Billie Jean King's victory over Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Women in Sports traces the opposition women athletes faced throughout history and catalogues their incredible achievements. This fun, fact-filled guide includes loads of fascinating quotes and trivia to test your knowledge, as well as complete "rules of the game" for each sport. -- The history of women's participation in Olympic games, from the first female spectators who were thrown off cliffs in ancient Greece, to the amazing female feats from the 2000 Summer games in Sydney, Australia. -- Groundbreaking champions, such as Babe Didrikson, Wilma Rudolph, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Gertrude Ederlem Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, and Manon Rheaume. -- Modern day superstars, including Tara Lupinsky, Mia Hamm, and Anna Kournikova. -- Emerging women's sports, such as boxing and race car driving.
Author: Zander Hollander
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780810388697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fourth edition of this guide chronicles the complete history of ice hockey, carrying readers from the sport's origins on the frozen lakes and ponds of Canada right through to the games and events of the 1991-92 season. In addition to summaries of each National Hockey League season, the encyclopaedia includes details of the greatest players, the Stanley Cup, memorable moments in hockey, the officials, the World Hockey Association, and coaches.