50 Years of American Sports - Softcover

David Fischer; Jim Gigliotti; Timothy J. Seeberg; Michael Teitelbaum; John Walters

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1600571409 ISBN 13: 9781600571404

Publisher: World Almanac, 2010

Synopsis

Presenting 50 years of sports records, high points, scandals, championships, and much more.

50 Years of American Sports presents in full color the exciting history of American sports from 1960 through 2009. Examining sports as social history, this new guide covers the historical high points, scandals, records, championships, and the rise of professional athletics in an engaging decade-by-decade format. It captures the thrill of the games while looking at how sports have impacted culture, shaped race relations, influenced world events, and much more.

Written by a team of top sports journalists and sports writers, this comprehensive book presents compelling and inspiring histories of the sports people love to watch and play. Year-by-year chapters recount important sports highlights, and full-color photographs capture some of the greatest moments in sports.

Sports covered include:

Auto racing
Baseball
Basketball
Boxing
Football
Golf
Hockey
Horse racing
The Olympics
Soccer
Tennis
and many more.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Teitelbaum is the author of more than 150 books, including tie-in novelizations based on movies and television shows as varied as Spider-Man, Superman, Avatar, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Smallville, X-Men, Batman, Transformers, Garfield, and Kermit the Frog.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Almanac
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1600571409
• ISBN 13: 9781600571404
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400