Igniting the Flame - America''s First Olympic Team

Informationen zum Autor JIM REISLER is the author of eight baseball books, most notably Babe Ruth: Launching the Legend, praised by The New York Times Sunday Book Review. Reisler has written for Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, New York Daily News, and Newsweek. Jim is a frequent guest on sports radio shows, including Bob Costas’s national satellite show and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Klappentext The story of the fourteen men – largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book – who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and the 2012 Olympics in London. Zusammenfassung The story of the fourteen men - largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book - who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens! timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and the 2012 Olympics in London.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Reisler, Reisler Jim
• Assisted by: Wottle Dave (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2012
• EAN: 9780762778485
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-7848-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics & Paralympics, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Olympic and Paralympic games