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Book Synopsis Great American Athletes of the 20th Century by : Zander Hollander
Download or read book Great American Athletes of the 20th Century written by Zander Hollander and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches of fifty American athletes who represent eleven different sports.
Book Synopsis Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century by : Tim Crothers
Download or read book Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century written by Tim Crothers and published by Time Home Entertainment. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorial: John B. Harhai.
Book Synopsis The Fifty Finest Athletes of the 20th Century by : Robert J. Condon
Download or read book The Fifty Finest Athletes of the 20th Century written by Robert J. Condon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles superachievers in thirteen different sports, grouped in the categories "The Top Twenty, " "The Runners-up, " and "The Greatest Athlete of the Twentieth Century."
Download or read book All American written by Bill Crawford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Book Synopsis Great American Athletes of the 20th Century by : Zander Hollander
Download or read book Great American Athletes of the 20th Century written by Zander Hollander and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1972 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches of fifty American athletes who represent eleven different sports.
Book Synopsis Great Athletes of the 20th Century by : Jack Kavanagh
Download or read book Great Athletes of the 20th Century written by Jack Kavanagh and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sportswriters Kavanagh and Tackach survey baseball, basketball, boxing, football, golf, ice hockey, tennis, and the Olympics to profile 100 of the century's greatest competitors. Each biography is accompanied by outstanding color and black and white action photos.
Book Synopsis The 20 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century by : Brad Herzog
Download or read book The 20 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century written by Brad Herzog and published by Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the legendary athletes who captured our imaginations and changed the way people around the world view sports. Read the inspiring tales of Muhammad Ali, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Jack Nicklaus, Jackie Robinson, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Jesse Owens, Babe Ruth, Joe Montana, and 12 others who became even more important than the games they played. These terrific 20 are the best of the best!
Book Synopsis The 100 Greatest American Athletes by : Martin Gitlin
Download or read book The 100 Greatest American Athletes written by Martin Gitlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Jim Thorpe, World's Greatest Athlete by : Robert W. Wheeler
Download or read book Jim Thorpe, World's Greatest Athlete written by Robert W. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of early twentieth-century Native American athlete Jim Thorpe, discussing his school years, his participation in amateur sports, his Olympic wins in 1912, and his professional baseball and football careers.
Book Synopsis A Spectacular Leap by : Jennifer H. Lansbury
Download or read book A Spectacular Leap written by Jennifer H. Lansbury and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "a spectacular leap," African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years. Yet it would be another twenty years before they would experience something akin to the national fame and recognition that African American men had known since the 1930s, the days of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens. From the 1920s, when black women athletes were confined to competing within the black community, through the heady days of the late twentieth century when they ruled the world of women's track and field, African American women found sport opened the door to a better life. However, they also discovered that success meant challenging perceptions that many Americans--both black and white--held of them. Through the stories of six athletes--Coachman, Ora Washington, Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudloph, Wyomia Tyus, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee--Jennifer H. Lansbury deftly follows the emergence of black women athletes from the African American community; their confrontations with contemporary attitudes of race, class, and gender; and their encounters with the civil rights movement. Uncovering the various strategies the athletes use to beat back stereotypes, Lansbury explores the fullness of African American women's relationship with sport in the twentieth century.
Download or read book All American written by Bill Crawford and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All American is riveting and grand-that rare pairing of exquisite writing and unassailable research. Crawford delivers you to an age when iconic titans like Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner marched across the planet, and he is the perfect guide to their enormous triumphs and tragedies. This is epic American history at its page-turning finest." -Bill Minutaglio, author of City on Fire and First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty He was the greatest football running back of his era, leading his Carlisle Indian Industrial School team to victory over all the great college powerhouses. King Gustav of Sweden called him "the greatest athlete in the world" after he won gold medals for the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games. Yet Jim Thorpe was also at the center of the greatest sports scandal of the twentieth century-a scandal that took away his Olympic medals and banned him forever from intercollegiate sports. Now, in this revealing new biography, Bill Crawford captures Jim Thorpe's remarkable rise and fall. From his youth on Oklahoma's Sac and Fox Indian reservation to his astounding feats on the gridiron, from his Olympic triumphs to his complex relationship with coach "Pop" Warner, who mentored, exploited, and ultimately betrayed him, All American brings you up close and personal with the greatest athlete of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Native American Son by : Kate Buford
Download or read book Native American Son written by Kate Buford and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete the United States has ever seen. With clarity and a fine eye for detail, Kate Buford traces the pivotal moments of Thorpe’s incomparable career: growing up in the tumultuous Indian Territory of Oklahoma; leading the Carlisle Indian Industrial School football team, coached by the renowned “Pop” Warner, to victories against the country’s finest college teams; winning gold medals in the 1912 Olympics pentathlon and decathlon; defining the burgeoning sport of professional football and helping to create what would become the National Football League; and playing long, often successful—and previously unexamined—years in professional baseball. But, at the same time, Buford vividly depicts the difficulties Thorpe faced as a Native American—and a Native American celebrity at that—early in the twentieth century. We also see the infamous loss of his Olympic medals, stripped from him because he had previously played professional baseball, an event that would haunt Thorpe for the rest of his life. We see his struggles with alcoholism and personal misfortune, losing his first child and moving from one failed marriage to the next, coming to distrust many of the hands extended to him. Finally, we learn the details of his vigorous advocacy for Native American rights while he chased a Hollywood career, and the truth behind the supposed reinstatement of his Olympic record in 1982. Here is the story—long overdue and brilliantly told—of a complex, iconoclastic, profoundly talented man whose life encompassed both tragic limitations and truly extraordinary achievements.
Book Synopsis The Sports 100 by : Associated Press
Download or read book The Sports 100 written by Associated Press and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Sports 100 by : Associated Press
Download or read book The Sports 100 written by Associated Press and published by Sports Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look back at the 100 greatest athletes of the 20th century--newly revised!
Book Synopsis Sport’s Great All-Rounders by : James Holder
Download or read book Sport’s Great All-Rounders written by James Holder and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 3, 1958, Arthur Milton and MJK Smith opened the batting for England in the third Test against New Zealand at Headingley. Coincidentally, Milton was the last Englishman to play football and cricket for England and Smith the last Englishman to play rugby and cricket for England. However, both before and after that Test in 1958, there have been a number of sportsmen and sportswomen who have represented their country in more than one sport. In this book are listed biographical details of 172 sportsmen and sportswomen, including some of whom are disabled, who have excelled at more than one sport. Some, such as CB Fry and Denis Compton, will be well-known; others, such as Aramugam Vijiaratnam, who represented Singapore in four sports and Ken Hough, who played three different sports for three different countries may be less well-known. But everyone listed has excelled at more than one sport and this book serves to recognize their achievements.
Book Synopsis Sport and the Color Line by : Patrick B. Miller
Download or read book Sport and the Color Line written by Patrick B. Miller and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays presented in this text examine the complexity of black American sports culture, from the organization of semi-pro baseball and athletic programs at historically black colleges and universities, to the careers of individual stars such as Jack Johnson and Joe Louis.
Book Synopsis Sport and the Color Line by : Patrick B. Miller
Download or read book Sport and the Color Line written by Patrick B. Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' "Souls of Black Folk," in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth century. Half a century later, Jackie Robinson would display his remarkable athletic skills in "baseball's great experiment." Now, "Sport and the Color Line" takes a look at the last century through the lens of sports and race, drawing together articles by many of the leading figures in Sport Studies to address the African American experience and the history of race relations. The history of African Americans in sport is not simple, and it certainly did not begin in 1947 when Jackie Robinson first donned a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. The essays presented here examine the complexity of black American sports culture, from the organization of semi-pro baseball and athletic programs at historically black colleges and universities, to the careers of individual stars such as Jack Johnson and Joe Louis, to the challenges faced by black women in sports. What are today's black athletes doing in the aftermath of desegregation, or with the legacy of Muhammad Ali's political stance? The essays gathered here engage such issues, as well as the paradoxes of corporate sport and the persistence of scientific racism in the athletic realm.
