Sports - Great Lives Author:George Sullivan This collection of biographical sketches features twenty-nine sports stars, representing football, baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, golf, tennis, boxing, skiing, ice skating, gymnastics, and track. — George Sullivan's text captures the excitement of great moments in sports history as Roger Bannister runs the four-minute mile in 1954, Wil... more »t Chamberlain scores 100 points in one game in 1962, and Nadia Comaneci attains in 1976 the first perfect score in the history of the Olympics. Here, too, are the athletes who pioneered in their fields, including Red Grange, Jesse Owens, Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, Babe Didrikson, and Jim Thorpe.
Great Lives: Sports spotlights the background, the achievements, and the personalities of some of the major figures in sports history.« less