The encyclopedia of North American sports history / Ralph Hickok.

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Focusing primarily on the history of professional sports, this encyclopedia includes some 1600 alphabetical entries providing details of sports arenas, biographies of athletes and other sports figures, discussions of prominent athletic events, descriptions of types of sports, descriptions of institu...

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Main Author: Hickok, Ralph
Language:English
Published: New York : Facts on File, [2002], ©2002.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Sports > North America > Encyclopedias.
Genre:
Encyclopedias.
Physical Description:xiv, 594 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Format: Book
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Focusing primarily on the history of professional sports, this encyclopedia includes some 1600 alphabetical entries providing details of sports arenas, biographies of athletes and other sports figures, discussions of prominent athletic events, descriptions of types of sports, descriptions of institutions, and listings of winners of major awards. The types of statistics that keep many a sports argument raging for hours are included throughout.
Call Number:GV567 .H518 2002
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 562-564) and index.
ISBN:0816046603 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816046607 (hc : alk. paper)
0816050716 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816050710 (pbk. : alk. paper)