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The 100 most important sporting events in American history /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara, California :
Greenwood,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Jackie Robinson
- The miracle on ice
- James Naismith and the invention of basketball
- Joe Louis
- Title IX
- Sports come to radio
- Sports come to television
- ESPN : Sports around the clock
- Muhammad Ali defies Uncle Sam
- Jesse Owens
- Cincinnati Red Stockings go pro
- The World Series
- Babe Ruth transforms baseball
- Red Grange Introduces pro football to the world
- The great Jim Thorpe
- The NFL's greatest game
- Roberto Clemente
- Marvin Miller and baseball free agency
- The NBA integrates
- Texas Western wins NCAA basketball
- Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's record
- Fritz Pollard, the NFL's First African American coach
- The Black Sox scandal
- Bill Russell, first African American NBA coach
- Don Larsen's perfect game
- Joe Namath's Super Bowl prediction
- Secretariat the great
- Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak
- Ted Williams bats .406
- The death of Dale Earnhardt
- Michael Jordan plays while sick
- Jack Nicklaus reclaims glory
- The Dream Team at the 1992 Olympics
- Richard Petty's 200th win
- Lance Armstrong
- Kenny Sailors invents the jump shot
- Pete Gogolak's funny kicking
- Introduction of the NBA shot clock
- Pete Rose, Charlie Hustle
- President Nixon's Ping-Pong Diplomacy
- Miami Dolphins go 17-0
- Frank Robinson, first African American manager
- Althea Gibson
- Women's pro basketball
- Johnny Vander Meer's two no-hitters
- The Houston Astrodome
- U.S. Soccer World Cup champs
- Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a game
- Cy Young wins 511 games.
- The Jack Dempsey / Gene Tunney long count
- Baseball's All-Star Game
- Bill Mazeroski's amazing home run
- Michael Phelps
- Martina Navratilova wins and comes out
- Magic Johnson shows you can live with AIDS
- John Wooden's 10 NCAA titles
- University of Connecticut women's basketball
- The Cal Ripken streak
- Wayne Gretzky changes hockey
- Pat Summitt wins big and inspires
- Jack Johnson is hated for being black and good
- Fernandomania
- Frank Shorter is golden
- Wilma Rudolph
- Tiger Woods tries to be the greatest
- Honus Wagner and baseball cards
- Pittsburgh's immaculate reception
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- Indiana State versus Michigan State
- A Basketball sisterhood
- Marshall University's plane crash
- Oklahoma football's 47-game winning streak
- Tommie Smith's and John Carlos's gloved fists
- Jim Brown's stunning career and departure
- Willie Mays's World Series gem
- The Ice Bowl
- Rocky Marciano, undefeated champion
- A.J. Foyt
- Bobby Thomson wins the Pennant
- Red Sox at last
- Dan Jansen's challenges
- The Fosbury flop
- Win one for the Gipper
- Kerri Strug
- Loyola's 1963 iron men
- The death of Len Bias
- Peyton the great
- Bob Beamon's leap
- Roger Maris tops the Babe
- The National Hockey League expands
- College basketball's game of the century
- Baseball's only fatality
- The earthquake World Series
- Libby Riddles wins the Iditarod
- Baseball teams start city hopping
- Monica Seles is stabbed
- Billie Jean King steps up for women's tennis
- Tommy John surgery
- Fantasy sports
- Soap opera on skates.