By Dana R. Barnes
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This paintings makes an attempt to hide all overseas, seminal activities figures from the 19th to the twenty-first century in all disciplines. greater than six hundred biographies conceal not just athletes but additionally coaches, staff executives, media figures, writers, and sportscasters. the standards for choice incorporated ''first'' achievements, effect on game after which society, files set or damaged, and involvement in debatable or newsworthy actions on or off the field.Each access is prepared alphabetically and encompasses a 1,000- to 2,500-word essay, touch info for the topic, and additional readings, together with websites. Sidebars offer chronologies of occasions within the lives of the topics, lists of significant awards and accomplishments, statistics, extracts from fabric comparable to journal articles, and short biographies of people who performed major roles within the activities figures' lives. different invaluable good points are the 3 indexes: a geographic index, an occupational index, and cumulative topic index that offers entry below group identify, faith, awards, place performed, or even ailments, equivalent to HIV/AIDS.Notable activities Figures doesn't unavoidably fill a void in biographical insurance of athletes while one considers the hot e-book of a number of different resources, resembling Encyclopedia of North American activities historical past (2d ed., proof On dossier, 2002) or The Scribner Encyclopedia of yankee Lives: activities Figures (2002). Admittedly those volumes are constrained to American or North American activities insurance, yet after scanning the geographic index in outstanding activities Figures, it's fairly glaring that the emphasis is on American athletes. notwithstanding, having all the notables in a single reference set will keep the reference librarian time in trying to find authoritative assets. amazing activities Figures is usually recommended for high-school, public, and educational libraries the place price range cash will enable buy.
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1534 Swedish skier Isiah Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1597 American basketball player Jackie Stewart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1537 Scottish race car driver Thurman Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1602 American football player Kordell Stewart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1541 American football player Jenny Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1605 American swimmer Lyn St. James .
1739 American swimmer Jesse Ventura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1682 American wrestler Hanni Wenzel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1742 Liechensteinian skier Georges Vezina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1687 Canadian hockey player Jerry West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1743 American basketball player xxxv Entry List Notable Sports Figures Reggie White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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