The Encyclopedia of the 20th Century Athletes (Hardcover)

Sports are enjoying greater popularity than ever before, as evidenced by newspaper and media coverage as well as the emergence of cable channels that offer twenty-four-hour programming. The Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Athletes provides sports fans, weekend athletes, and students with a single-volume reference source to athletes from all major sports.

Coverage includes:
-- More than 900 clear, concise entries profiling athletes from all major sports, each including information on the athlete's life and career, their performance, notable awards and accomplishments, and their overall place in sports history
-- Appendixes of major resources and organizations with web sites listed
-- A chronology of the most significant sporting events and occurrences of the century
-- An extensive bibliography of sources.

Among the athletes profiled are:
-- Hank Aaron
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
-- Muhammad Ali
-- Yogi Berra
-- Cynthia Cooper
-- Phil Esposito
-- Peggy Fleming
-- Jake La Motta
-- Ivan Lendl
-- Carl Lewis
-- Nancy Lopez
-- Bobby Orr
-- Johnny Unitas
-- Tiger Woods.