Research Catalog

Title

The 100 greatest Jews in sports : ranked according to achievement / B.P. Robert Stephen Silverman.

Author

Silverman, B. P. Robert Stephen.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

xii, 188 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

• "The 100 Greatest Jews in Sports ranks the greatest Jewish athletes in all major sports from the past eleven decades using a limited scope and quantitative criteria. Each decade has showcased a different Jewish athlete, from boxing's Abe Attell to baseball's Sandy Koufax to golf's Amy Alcott to football's Sid Luckman. Profiled sports include baseball, basketball, hockey, tennis, golf, auto racing, boxing, soccer, football, and swimming."
• "This book provides a proportional representation of the most important individual accomplishments in sports. Silverman identifies the most common categories of statistics in which the highest paid athletes in all sports have excelled, and he assigns numeric values to reflect the performance categories.
• By applying these numbers to the records of selected athletes, each is comparatively ranked." "Filled with historic photographs of athletes and interspersed with interesting tidbits of their personal lives and careers, The 100 Greatest Jews in Sports is certain to be of interest for casual readers and sports enthusiasts alike."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

One hundred greatest Jews in sports

Subject

• Jewish athletes > Biography
• Jewish athletes > Rating of
• Jewish athletes
• Sportler
• Jewish athletes > Biography
• Jewish athletes > Rating of
• Juden

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

1. The Scope and Criteria of the Rankings -- 2. The Quantitative Ranking Criteria -- 3. The All-Time Ranking of Great Jewish Athletes -- 4. All-Time Rankings by Era -- 5. Unsung Jewish Athletes -- 6. Jewish Sports Team Executives -- 7. The Jewish Sports Following -- 8. Milestones in Jewish Sports History -- 9. The Jewish Sports History IQ Test.

ISBN

• 0810847752
• 9780810847750

LCCN

2003009603

OCLC

• ocm52178848
• 52178848
• SCSB-14010270

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library