The sixth volume of the Biographical Dictionary of American Sports, this supplement includes entries on 616 major figures in baseball, football, basketball, and other sports.
Preface Abbreviations Auto and Stock Car Racing Baseball Basketball Bowling Boxing Communications Football Golf Horse Racing Ice Hockey Shooting Skating Skiing Swimming Tennis and Other Racquet Sports Track and Field Wrestling Miscellaneous Sports Appendix 1: Alphabetical Listing of Entries with Sport Appendix 2: Entries by Major Sport Appendix 3: Entries by Place of Birth Appendix 4: Women Athletes by Sport Appendix 5: Cross References for Married Women Athletes Appendix 6: Major U.S. Sports Halls of Fame Appendix 7: Sites of Olympic Games Index
DAVID L. PORTER is Louis Tuttle Shangle Professor of History at William Penn College./e He is the editor of the multivolume Biographical Dictionary of American Sports, the author of several books, and an associate editor of American National Biography.
?A thorough-going guide to the subject...Recommended.?-Reference
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?The set remains a standard source of first referral for sketches
of athletes from the US and is an obvious selection for libraries
holding the earlier volumes.?-Choice
"A thorough-going guide to the subject...Recommended."-Reference
Book Review
"The set remains a standard source of first referral for sketches
of athletes from the US and is an obvious selection for libraries
holding the earlier volumes."-Choice
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