Product Description: Mary Norton of New Jersey: Congressional Trailblazer tells the compelling story of Mary Norton, who served in the United States House of Representatives for 13 terms from 1925 to 1951, featuring her significant role as a congressional pioneer for women and American workers...read more

Product Description: The book tells the dramatic stories of 24 remarkable athletes who overcame seemingly insurmountable medical adversities to attain athletic success. A separate chapter is devoted to each, relating how that athlete developed the problem, what medical issues arose, how success was achieved despite the setback, and what personal qualities enabled the athlete to prevail...read more

Presents 577 biographical entries on the lives and careers of individuals important to the history of basketball, from its origins to the present.

Product Description: African Americans and Latino Americans have played an increasingly significant role in the ongoing saga of American sports―and not just in popular sports like basketball and baseball. This is the first comprehensive, multisport biographical resource to concentrate exclusively on the accomplishments, achievements, and personal struggles of notable African American and Latino American athletes of the last quarter century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Profiles the lives and careers of more than 500 American baseball players, managers, coaches, writers, executives, and promoters (view table of contents)

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Product Description: A standard source of first referral, Porter's multivolume Biographical Dictionary of American Sports now adds a long-awaited revised and expanded edition of the popular 1987 Baseball volume and the following supplements. This four-volume work profiles over 1,450 baseball luminaries, including current stars, former major league players, managers, umpires, and executives, and Negro League and All-American Girls Professional Baseball League stars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents personal and professional profiles of over one hundred sixty African American athletes representing eleven sports (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This volume provides a cumulative index to the highly acclaimed multi-volume Biographical Dictionary of American Sports, listing all items alphabetically for the first five volumes, published from 1987 to 1992. The five volumes, classified by sport, provide comprehensive biographical information on over 2,700 of the nation's most extraordinary sports figures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume, the fifth in the Biographical Dictionary of American Sports, provides biographical and bibliographical information on 620 distinguished American sports personalities. The majority of the entries represent team sports, including baseball, football, and basketball...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers brief profiles of professional and collegiate athletes in basketball, bowling, boxing, diving, figure skating, gymnastics, hockey, swimming, weightlifting, and wrestling (view table of contents)

Identifies American athletes in auto racing, golf, horse racing, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, speed skating, tennis, and track and field (view table of contents)

Product Description: Porter has produced a well-conceived, informative reference book that effectively combines breadth and depth of coverage. Recommended for academic and public libraries. ChoiceThe second of four volumes devoted to American sports, this volume presents comprehensive information on college and professional football players, coaches, club executives, league administrators, rule developers, and promoters active in the sport since 1869...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)