Book Description:
North America's most popular sports almanac returns with new facts, new records, and more fun than ever before. Like its hugely successful predecessors, this new volume combines essays from great sportswriters and top ESPN personalities, easily accessed facts, in depth statistics from ESPN's Inside the Numbers team, hundreds of photographs, and thousands of charts and tables. It reviews the year's top ten highlights of each sport, reflects every notable change in the sports world over the past year, and gives a full recap of the World Series and major competitions for professional and amateur alike. With more than 950 fact filled pages, this extraordinary fusion between two trusted sports resources is as entertaining as it is informative. It's the perfect gift for the sports fan who always knows the latest scores and can never have enough information. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon.com Review /Source Content Taking its cue from cable TV's ESPN, this compendium of statistics, top stories, anecdotes, and quirky facts from the 1997 sports season includes contributions from network personalities such as Chris Berman, Dan Patrick, Dick Vitale, and Chris Mortenson. In addition, each major sport receives a year end review (or two) by a noted commentator (Peter Gammons for baseball, Mike Tirico for golf, etc.), final box score standings, noteworthy stats for teams and individuals, historical records, and other forms of brain candy, including lists of 1997's top 40 personalities and top 40 moments. This is essential information for sports fans.
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