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The sixth volume of the
Biographical Dictionary of American Sports, this supplement provides biographies for 616 athletes, coaches, managers, officials, administrators, writers, and broadcasters who have played an active role in American sports or helped to promote them. Most of the entries are from team sports, including baseball (202), football (181), and basketball (58). Some entries treat individual sports, including track and field (29), golf (14), and tennis and other racquet sports (16). Other sports covered include ice hockey, horse racing, boxing, swimming, bowling, skating, shooting, wrestling, skiing, and cycling. Thirty women athletes are included.
List of contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Auto and Stock Car Racing
Baseball
Basketball
Bowling
Boxing
Communications
Football
Golf
Horse Racing
Ice Hockey
Shooting
Skating
Skiing
Swimming
Tennis and Other Racquet Sports
Track and Field
Wrestling
Miscellaneous Sports
Appendix 1: Alphabetical Listing of Entries with Sport
Appendix 2: Entries by Major Sport
Appendix 3: Entries by Place of Birth
Appendix 4: Women Athletes by Sport
Appendix 5: Cross References for Married Women Athletes
Appendix 6: Major U.S. Sports Halls of Fame
Appendix 7: Sites of Olympic Games
Index
About the author
DAVID L. PORTER is Louis Tuttle Shangle Professor of History at William Penn College./e He is the editor of the multivolume Biographical Dictionary of American Sports, the author of several books, and an associate editor of American National Biography.
