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Why Michael couldn't hit : and other tales of the neurology of sports
- Title
- Why Michael couldn't hit : and other tales of the neurology of sports / Harold L. Klawans.
- Author
- Klawans, Harold L.
- Publication
- New York : W.H. Freeman, c1996.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 308 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-300) and index.
- Contents
- The pregame show -- Why Michael Jordan couldn't hit a baseball -- Primo Carnera : the bigger they are -- The first overtime : sudden death -- The seventh inning stretch : Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky -- The bantam : Ben Hogan -- The nineteenth hole : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Muhammad Ali's brain -- Between rounds -- The men with the not-so-golden arms : J.R. Richard and Whitey Ford -- The tenth inning : Bruce Sutter -- Flying like a butterfly : Wilma Rudolph -- The four-minute neurologist : Roger Bannister -- A break in the action : Willie Mays, Vic Wertz, and Eddie Gaedel -- Just right : Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf -- One fine morning : Lou Gehrig -- First-half Jameson -- Saving the best for last : Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
- Call Number
- Sc E 97-423
- ISBN
- 0716730014 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 96024097
- OCLC
- 34984097
- Author
- Klawans, Harold L.
- Title
- Why Michael couldn't hit : and other tales of the neurology of sports / Harold L. Klawans.
- Imprint
- New York : W.H. Freeman, c1996.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-300) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 97-423