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• catalog abstract "A monumental anthology covering the literature of sports, from the funeral games of Homer to the American World Series today, Men in Sports includes Mary Renault's telling of an exciting day at the Olympic Games of 520 B.C., Stirling Moss's thousand-mile auto race, Ring Lardner's Horseshoes, James Dickey's harrowing account of canoes capsizing in the rapids, George Plimpton's The Five-Play Quarterback, Pele at soccer, Colin Fletcher's wilderness walking, Norman Mailer's coverage of the Patterson-Liston fight, Sydney Franklin's decision to become a bull-fighter, Dick Francis's horse-racing story The Day of the Losers, the climax of Trevanian's mountain-climbing classic Descent from the Eiger, John McPhee's tennis coverage of Arthur Ashe vs. Clark Graebner at Forest Hills, and Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. There are unusual selections featuring many other sports, including archery, ballooning, bicycling, billiards, boating, hockey, fishing, golf, hunting, jai alai, polo, rowing, skiing, scuba diving, surf-riding, swimming, track, wrestling, and yachting. Men in Sports is an omnibus anthology offering hours of fascinating, exciting reading for sports enthusiasts of all ages.".
• catalog contributor b6266948.
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description "A monumental anthology covering the literature of sports, from the funeral games of Homer to the American World Series today, Men in Sports includes Mary Renault's telling of an exciting day at the Olympic Games of 520 B.C., Stirling Moss's thousand-mile auto race, Ring Lardner's Horseshoes, James Dickey's harrowing account of canoes capsizing in the rapids, George Plimpton's The Five-Play Quarterback, Pele at soccer, Colin Fletcher's wilderness walking, Norman Mailer's coverage of the Patterson-Liston fight, Sydney Franklin's decision to become a bull-fighter, Dick Francis's horse-racing story The Day of the Losers, the climax of Trevanian's mountain-climbing classic Descent from the Eiger, John McPhee's tennis coverage of Arthur Ashe vs. Clark Graebner at Forest Hills, and Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.".
• catalog description "Introduction / B. Aymar -- Olympic funeral games / Homer -- Attending the 64th Olympic games: 520 B.C. / M. Renault -- The chariot race / L. Wallace -- A contest in archery / A.C. Doyle -- The thousand-mile auto race (Mille miglia 1955) / S. Moss -- Caught in a tempest / J. Verne -- The redheaded outfield / Z. Grey -- Horseshoes / R. Lardner -- The magnificent moment: the called-shot home run / R.W. Creamer -- Mystic baseball: a new age look / M. D'Antonio -- Winning and losing / B. Cousy ; J. Devaney -- My greatest race / M.W. Taylor -- Three cushions / D. McGoorty -- Moonlight cruising / B. Aymar -- A piece of steak / J. London -- Bomaye / M. Ali ; R. Durham -- The Patterson-Liston fight / N. Mailer -- A bullfighter from Brooklyn / S. Franklin -- Capsizing in the rapids / J. Dickey -- The cricket match -- R. Stilgoe -- The salmon / I. Walton -- Once on a Sunday / P. Wylie -- How the great football game was played / R.H. Davis -- The five-play quarterback / G. Plimpton -- The pro-football game / P. Gent -- The awakening of Rollo Podmarsh / P.G. Wodehouse -- The goalie / K. Dryden.".
• catalog description "The day of the losers / D. Francis -- The moose / T. Roosevelt -- Lynx-hunting / S. Crane -- The monarch's last tanto / R. Sylvester -- The tournament / W. Scott -- Legends of karate / G.E. Mattson -- Descent from the Eiger / Trevanian -- The maltese cat / R. Kipling -- The Yale-Harvard boat race / S. Kiesling -- The neophyte diver / J. Jones -- Toni Sailer: Gold in the snow / M. Allen -- Pelé / Pelé ; R.L. Fish -- The waves at Waikiki / J. London -- The swimmer / J. Cheever -- Swimming the English Channel / D. Nyad -- The first golden age / R. Schickel -- Arthur Ashe vs. Clark Graebner at Forest Hills / J. McPhee -- The front runner / P.N. Warren -- The loneliness of the long-distance runner / A. Sillitoe -- Beyond the divide / C. Fletcher -- My American tour: Casey Berger, the Texas champ / A. Oakeley -- Transatlantic race / C. Mitchell.".
• catalog description "There are unusual selections featuring many other sports, including archery, ballooning, bicycling, billiards, boating, hockey, fishing, golf, hunting, jai alai, polo, rowing, skiing, scuba diving, surf-riding, swimming, track, wrestling, and yachting. Men in Sports is an omnibus anthology offering hours of fascinating, exciting reading for sports enthusiasts of all ages.".
• catalog extent "xi, 499 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Men in sports.".
• catalog identifier "0517595443 :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Men in sports.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Crown Publishers,".
• catalog relation "Men in sports.".
• catalog subject "796 20".
• catalog subject "GV707 .M45 1994".
• catalog subject "Sports stories.".
• catalog subject "Sports.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / B. Aymar -- Olympic funeral games / Homer -- Attending the 64th Olympic games: 520 B.C. / M. Renault -- The chariot race / L. Wallace -- A contest in archery / A.C. Doyle -- The thousand-mile auto race (Mille miglia 1955) / S. Moss -- Caught in a tempest / J. Verne -- The redheaded outfield / Z. Grey -- Horseshoes / R. Lardner -- The magnificent moment: the called-shot home run / R.W. Creamer -- Mystic baseball: a new age look / M. D'Antonio -- Winning and losing / B. Cousy ; J. Devaney -- My greatest race / M.W. Taylor -- Three cushions / D. McGoorty -- Moonlight cruising / B. Aymar -- A piece of steak / J. London -- Bomaye / M. Ali ; R. Durham -- The Patterson-Liston fight / N. Mailer -- A bullfighter from Brooklyn / S. Franklin -- Capsizing in the rapids / J. Dickey -- The cricket match -- R. Stilgoe -- The salmon / I. Walton -- Once on a Sunday / P. Wylie -- How the great football game was played / R.H. Davis -- The five-play quarterback / G. Plimpton -- The pro-football game / P. Gent -- The awakening of Rollo Podmarsh / P.G. Wodehouse -- The goalie / K. Dryden.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The day of the losers / D. Francis -- The moose / T. Roosevelt -- Lynx-hunting / S. Crane -- The monarch's last tanto / R. Sylvester -- The tournament / W. Scott -- Legends of karate / G.E. Mattson -- Descent from the Eiger / Trevanian -- The maltese cat / R. Kipling -- The Yale-Harvard boat race / S. Kiesling -- The neophyte diver / J. Jones -- Toni Sailer: Gold in the snow / M. Allen -- Pelé / Pelé ; R.L. Fish -- The waves at Waikiki / J. London -- The swimmer / J. Cheever -- Swimming the English Channel / D. Nyad -- The first golden age / R. Schickel -- Arthur Ashe vs. Clark Graebner at Forest Hills / J. McPhee -- The front runner / P.N. Warren -- The loneliness of the long-distance runner / A. Sillitoe -- Beyond the divide / C. Fletcher -- My American tour: Casey Berger, the Texas champ / A. Oakeley -- Transatlantic race / C. Mitchell.".
• catalog title "Men in sports : great sports stories of all time from the Greek Olympic games to the American World Series / edited and with an introduction by Brandt Aymar.".
• catalog type "text".