The Sports Immortals

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Was Jack Dempsey the greatest fighter of them all? If you had to make a baseball choice, would it be Babe Ruth over Ty Cobb or would it be one of the latter-day heroes, such as Willie Mays or Hank Aaron? What is the golfing similarity between Bobby Jones, the Grand Slam king of 1930, and the modern giant of the links. Jack Nicklaus?
From its beginnings, each sport has had its superstars —men and women who shatter seemingly unbreakable records and then turn around to better their previous efforts. As one era passes and a new one begins, a succession of bright new stars flashes across the sports firmament, giving rise to debate among fans: Who was the best?
Now 50 of the all-time greats of sports have been brought together for comparison in this unique, ambitious and lavishly illustrated book, The Sports Immortals, compiled and written by the expert sports staff of The Associated Press. It is a volume
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that is certain to provoke arguments and discussions.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Was Jack Dempsey the greatest fighter of them all? If you had to make a baseball choice, would it be Babe Ruth over Ty Cobb or would it be one of the latter-day heroes, such as Willie Mays or Hank Aaron? What is the golfing similarity between Bobby Jones, the Grand Slam king of 1930, and the modern giant of the links. Jack Nicklaus?
From its beginnings, each sport has had its superstars —men and women who shatter seemingly unbreakable records and then turn around to better their previous efforts. As one era passes and a new one begins, a succession of bright new stars flashes across the sports firmament, giving rise to debate among fans: Who was the best?
Now 50 of the all-time greats of sports have been brought together for comparison in this unique, ambitious and lavishly illustrated book, The Sports Immortals, compiled and written by the expert sports staff of The Associated Press. It is a volume
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that is certain to provoke arguments and discussions. Why wasn't Jackie Robinson included? What about Don Budge? Jim Ryun? Mickey Mantle? The shelves of a library could be filled with the feats of athletic giants, yet few would deny that this is a blue-ribbon roll call of sports' premier personalities. The book digs into the pioneer era for such stars as Ty Cobb and Walter Johnson in baseball, Jim Thorpe and Bronko Nagurski in football and the Flying Finn, Paavo Nurmi; moves through the golden age of Ruth-Dempsey-Grange-Tilden-Zaharias; past the period when sports were transformed from pastimes to businesses, producing the Ted Williamses, the Joe DiMaggios and the Bill Russells, into the present-day age of super-giants and superpurses.
Each of the immortals, from Nurmi to Namath, is colorfully profiled by craftsmen of the worldwide news service. Twenty-eight authors in all, each a specialist in his field, contributed to this exciting book.
Printed in the United States of America
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