1971 "A Century Of Sports" 1st Edition Hardcover Book
I have for sale the out-of-print, 1st edition hardcover book "A Century Of
Sports" by The Associated Press Sports Staff (1971). The editon contains
434 pages including full-color, and black and white photographs profiling
the people and events in the sports world over the past 100 years.
Front Jacket Excerpt:
"This ambitious, comprehensive work, A Century Of Sports, has captured all
of the exciting moments of it. The book covers more than 40 differnt
sports, from such mushrooming spectator giant as baseball and football, to
obscure pastimes such as curling and jiu-jitsu. It is liberally
illustrated
both in color and black-and- white. This is not merely an encyclopedia. It
is the moving story of the birth of all of these sports and their
development through the last 100 years. The great personalities-Babe Ruth
in baseball, Jack Dempsey in boxing, Bill Tilden in tennis, Bobby Jones in
golf-all come alive again in vivid accounts of each sport's evolution-its
triumphs and its tribulations. The book is flavored with anecdotes
concerning the great stars. The great contests and spectacles are revived.
Every chapter in A Century Of Sports was done by a specialist, a staff
writer of the far flung Associated Press who has lived with the sport
about
which he writes and who is familiar with its people and events."
Price $20. US plus postage
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