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Idols of the game : a sporting history of the American century

A social history of American sport, told through profiles of sixteen of the twentieth century's most famous athletes, studying the increasing trend toward commercialism in sports, and looking at the changing attitudes toward African-Americans, women, and other minorities
Print Book, English, ©1995
Turner Pub. ; Distributed by Andrews and McMeel, Atlanta, Kansas City, Mo., ©1995
collective biographies
368 pages : portraits ; 25 cm
9781570361548, 1570361541
32508580
John L. Sullivan
Jack Johnson
Jim Thorpe
Knute Rockne
Babe Ruth
Babe Didrikson
Joe Louis
Jackie Robinson
Mickey Mantle
Arnold Palmer
Vince Lombardi
Muhammad Ali
Bilie Jean King
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Michael Jordan
Martina Navaratilova