Profiles 225 of the great players of America's, from past legends like Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson and Mickey Mantle onwards. This book also includes great Softball players.

Emphasises on sports that are popular in North America. This title also covers over 200 of the greatest players in college and pro football, including the inspirational stories of Pat Tillman and Tedy Bruschi.

Emphasises on sports that are popular in North America. Covering a wide variety of topics, this volume includes BMX, auto, horse and boat racing, bowling, chess, cricket, lacrosse, martial arts, rodeo, sailing, sumo wrestling, and yachting.

Emphasises on sports that are popular in North America. This book also covers sports and athletes from other parts of the world. This book contains articles each of which is divided into four sections that cover the athlete's life and achievements chronologically.

This volume brings together in one place all the appendixes and indexes on individual sports and adds appendixes pertaining to all sports.

Profiles golf figures that include Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods. This book also profiles tennis figures that include Jimmy Connors, Billie Jean King and Venus and Serena Williams.

Scope and coverage - Virtually every athlete and every sport readers might reasonably expect to find can be found here. Although there is an emphasis on sports that are popular in North America, there is considerable coverage on sports and athletes from other parts of the world. Most North Americans have at least some familiarity with such sports as baseball, basketball, football, golf, ice hockey, and tennis. They are likely to have had less exposure to badminton, cycling, and soccer and even less exposure to sports such as cricket, fencing, and Tae Kwon Do. No matter what the sport,...