Upon further review : the greatest what-ifs in sports history
Record details
- ISBN: 1455540366
- ISBN: 9781455540365
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Physical Description:
x, 308 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Twelve, 2018.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-289) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / by Malcolm Gladwell -- Introduction / by Mike Pesca -- What if Muhammad Ali had gotten his draft deferment? / by Leigh Montville -- What if football had been deemed too boring in 1899? / by Jason Gay -- What if the United States had boycotted Hitler's Olympics? / by Shira Springer -- What if the 2017 Golden State Warriors traveled through time to play the greatest teams in NBA history? / by Ethan Sherwood Strauss -- What if horse racing was still the most popular sport in America? / by Peter Thomas Fornatale -- What if I hadn't written that fan letter to Dan Majerle in April 1993? / by Jesse Eisenberg -- What if Wayne Gretzky hadn't been an Oiler? / by Katie Baker -- What if Major League Baseball had started testing for steroids in 1991? / by Ben Lindbergh -- What if Bucky Dent hadn't homered over the Green Monster in 1978? / by Stefan Fatsis -- What if Jerry Tarkanian had beaten the NCAA and liberated college basketball? / by Jonathan Hock -- What if football were reinvented today? / by Nate Jackson -- What if there had always been sports PR flacks? / by L. Jon Wertheim -- What if...Title IX never was? / by Mary Pilon -- What if Tom Brady hadn't stepped in/taken over for an injured Drew Bledsoe? / by Steve Kornacki -- What if the 1999 U.S. Women's National Soccer Team had lost the Women's World Cup? / by Louisa Thomas -- What if the Olympics had never dropped tug-of-war? / by Nate DiMeo -- What if Billie Jean King had lost to Bobby Riggs? / by Wayne Coffey -- What if Mike Tyson had beaten Buster Douglas? / by Jeremy Schaap -- What if? A tour through NBA injury history / by Neil Paine ; with introductory notes on the topic "What if Bernard King hadn't been injured? / by Mike Pesca -- What if the Dodgers had left Brooklyn? / by Robert Siegel -- What if a blimp full of money had exploded over World Track Headquarters in 1952? / by Paul Snyder -- What if baseball teams only played once a week? / by Will Leitch -- What if Bobby Fischer had received proper psychiatric help? / by Dylan Loeb McClain -- What if basketball rims were smaller than basketballs? / by Jon Bois -- What if the AFL-NFL merger had been complicated by the Jets' loss in Super Bowl III? / by Michael MacCambridge -- What if the National League had the DH? / by Rob Neyer -- What if Nixon had been good at football? / by Julian E. Zelizer -- What if Bill Walton had healthy knees? / by Bob Ryan -- What if Roger Bannister trained today? / by Liam Boylan-Pratt -- What if Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton's pass hadn't gone awry? / by Claude Johnson -- What if Game 7 of the 2016 World Series had turned into every sports movie ever made? / by Josh Levin. |
Target Audience Note: | 1200L Lexile |
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Subject: | Sports Miscellanea Sports Anecdotes |
Genre: | Trivia and miscellanea. Anecdotes. Counterfactual histories. |
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- 6 of 6 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Little Dixie Regional.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | 796 PESCA (Text) | 2004256206 | Non-Fiction Shelves | Available | - |