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Gridiron football or American football or just plain football is
the most popular sport in the United States in the 21st century.
Although attempts have been made to develop the sport outside North
America, it is still predominantly a North American sport with
similar games (but significant rules differences) played in the
United States and Canada. The Historical Dictionary of Football
covers the history of American football through a chronology, an
introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The
dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on both
amateur (collegiate) and professional players, coaches, teams and
executives from all eras. This book is an excellent access point
for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about
the sport of football.
In less than 120 years an activity invented by one man to alleviate
winter boredom for a college gym class has evolved into a worldwide
multi-billion dollar enterprise. It is impossible for Dr. James
Naismith, basketball's inventor, to have envisioned the extent to
which his simple game would reach. Without major changes to his
original 13 rules, basketball is now played in more than 200
countries by people of all ages. Thanks to basketball, players like
Michael Jordan, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Larry Bird, LeBron James,
Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O'Neal have become some of the most
famous people in the world. The Historical Dictionary of Basketball
is a comprehensive account of all forms of basketball amateur,
professional, men's, women's, Olympic, domestic, and international
from its invention in 1891 through the present day. This is done
through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive
bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on
the people, places, teams, and terminology of the game."
Loggats, kayles, quilles, skittles, half-bowl and ninepins were all
early forms of games in which the goal was to knock down small
standing objects from a distance by rolling or throwing another
object at them. Archaeologists have found items from Egypt around
5200 B.C. that included small stone balls and narrow pins that were
possibly used for a game. Additional research has disclosed that
Polynesians played a game in which small elliptical balls and round
flat stone disks were used. The distance used for bowling the
stones was 60 feet - the same as in modern-day tenpin bowling. The
Historical Dictionary of Bowling contains a chronology, an
introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The
dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on both
male and female bowlers, amateur and professional, bowling coaches,
writers and other contributors to the sport of bowling;
descriptions and results of major tournaments and terminology of
the sport. This book is an excellent access point for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of
Bowling.
In less than 120 years an activity invented by one man to alleviate
winter boredom for a college gym class has evolved into a worldwide
multi-billion dollar enterprise. It is impossible for Dr. James
Naismith, basketball's inventor, to have envisioned the extent to
which his simple game would reach. Without major changes to his
original 13 rules, basketball is now played in more than 200
countries by people of all ages. Thanks to basketball, players like
Michael Jordan, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Larry Bird, LeBron James,
Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O'Neal have become some of the most
famous people in the world. The Historical Dictionary of Basketball
is a comprehensive account of all forms of basketball-amateur,
professional, men's, women's, Olympic, domestic, and
international-from its invention in 1891 through the present day.
This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an
extensive bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary
entries on the people, places, teams, and terminology of the game.
Gridiron football or American football or just plain football is
the most popular sport in the United States in the 21st century.
Although attempts have been made to develop the sport outside North
America, it is still predominantly a North American sport with
similar games (but significant rules differences) played in the
United States and Canada. The Historical Dictionary of Football
covers the history of American football through a chronology, an
introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The
dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on both
amateur (collegiate) and professional players, coaches, teams and
executives from all eras. This book is an excellent access point
for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about
the sport of football.
Wrestling as a legitimate contest is one of the oldest, if not the
oldest form of sport. There are cave drawings in France that depict
memorable matches, which are over 15,000 years old. Egyptian and
Babylonian reliefs depict wrestling bouts where wrestlers are using
most of the holds known to the modern-day sport. Wrestling was also
a big part of ancient Greek literature and legend and historical
records of sport indicate that wrestling under various sets of
rules was contested at the Ancient Olympic Games in Greece. Today's
modern wrestling is a form of "sports entertainment" in which
highly skilled athletes enact wrestling matches in such a way so
that their opponents do not get hurt and the matches' endings are
scripted (although the audience is not aware of the script). This
Historical Dictionary of Wrestling covers the history of Wrestling
through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an
extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600
cross-referenced entries on important amateur and professional
wrestling, wrestling personalities, announcers, managers and
promoters from all eras, and wrestling organizations. This book is
an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone
wanting to know more about the sport of Wrestling.
Boxing is one of the oldest sports in the world, reaching back to
the Ancient Greeks, although it has become popular only in the past
century or so. But, in some ways, it is a rather complicated sport
since - to avoid unnecessary harm - it has been endowed with rules
to keep it clean, referees to see the rules are obeyed, and
organizations to regulate the sport. Boxing was once largely
amateur, although the professional bouts attracted the most
attention, but now it is also an Olympic sport. And, over the
years, there has been one champion after another who symbolized
what boxing was all about, such Joe Louis, Mohammad Ali and Cassius
Clay. Naturally, these champions are the focus of the Historical
Dictionary of Boxing as well, and they have the biggest entries in
the dictionary section, but they had to fight against someone and
there are dozens and dozens of other boxers with smaller entries.
More of these boxers come from the United States than elsewhere,
but there are others from Europe, Asia and Latin America, and there
are also entries on the major boxing countries as well. Plus
entries on the rules, on the organizations, and on the technical
terminology and jargon you have to know just to follow the bouts.
The introduction provides a broad view of boxing's history while
the chronology traces events from 688 B.C. to 2012 A.D. Not all
that much has been written on boxing that is not ephemeral, but
much of that literature can be found in the bibliography. This book
is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone
wanting to know more about the sport of boxing.
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