Tennis history is filled with unusual, bizarre, and unbelievable stories. "Tennis's Most Wanted " chronicles 700 of the most outrageous players, coaches, and officials in tennis history. Its seventy lists describe in detail tennis s colorful characters, surprising matches, inept players, bizarre nicknames, outrageous outfits, embarrassing losses, errant shots, terrible tantrums, and more. Only here will you learn that Joshua Pim won Wimbledon in 1893 and 1894 under an assumed name because he was afraid that being a tennis player would hurt his medical practice. Frank Riesley and Sydney Smith...

It's the rare bird that doesn't like Christmas. Sure there are Scrooges and, here and there, cries of "Bah, humbug," but Christmas is a time for celebrating, for giving, and for trying to be just a little nicer to your fellow man. As the song goes, "If every day could be just like Christmas what a wonderful world it would be." "Christmas's Most Wanted(TM)" is a celebration of the fun side of Christmas - the songs, the movies, the television shows, the history, the people, the laughs, even the commercialism . . . all that and more. So you'll see such top-ten lists as different versions of both...

Two books on hoops weren't enough, so now there's a third: Basketball Championships' Most Wanted(TM), focusing on the best, worst, greatest, and most amusing from basketball's long history of championships in college and the pros--mens' and womens', ABA and CBA, and the Olympics as well March Madness is one of the most exciting times of year, when anything can happen and Cinderella looks for her prince, sometimes even finding him. And when May and June roll around and the NBA playoffs are in full swing, the intensity ratchets up as the professionals take center stage. Basketball...