Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: 1992-1995 Supplement for Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Other Sports

by David L. Porter

Overview

The sixth volume of the Biographical Dictionary of American Sports, this supplement provides biographies for 616 athletes, coaches, managers, officials, administrators, writers, and broadcasters who have played an active role in American sports or helped to promote them. Most of the entries are from team sports, including baseball (202), football (181), and basketball (58). Some entries treat individual sports, including track and field (29), golf (14), and tennis and other racquet sports (16). Other sports covered include ice hockey, horse racing, boxing, swimming, bowling, skating, shooting, wrestling, skiing, and cycling. Thirty women athletes are included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313284311
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/1995
Pages:	848
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 2.00(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Adds 616 athletes, 30 of them women, to the nearly 3,000 covered in the first five volumes of the series. Articles of about a page in length profile the careers and achievements of noted figures from baseball, football, basketball, golf, swimming, shooting, auto racing, other sports, and print and electronic communications. A bibliography is included for each. Arranged by sport, and indexed alphabetically and by birthplace. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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