Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World

Name: Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World
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ISBN: 9781602396289

ISBN-10: 1602396280

ISBN-13: 9781602396289

Edition: 2008

Authors: Isabel Denny, George Vecsey, Isabel Denny

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Want to know what really happened? Stan Isaacs knows. He was there! "The Shot Heard Round the World," in 1951. "The Fight of the Century," in 1971. The horror of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Secretariat's legendary win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes. Stan Isaacs saw them all live. Isaacs covered thousands of sports stories in his more than fifty years as a journalist. But ten moments stand out in his memory.Ten Moments That Shook the Sports Worldoffers Isaacs' eyewitness accounts of the events that changed sports history. This collection offers those old enough to remember these events a chance to relive them, and younger sports lovers will get to hear this history from someone who was there.…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 6.10" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Isabel Denny studied history at the University of Bristol and has spent most of her career in teaching. She is also a freelance journalist, writing mainly for educational publications.



Foreword



Introduction



The First Super Bowl



John McEnroe's Wimbledons



Secretariat's Belmont



The Miracle Mets



Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29



The Princes of New York



Ali-Frazier



The Jets Upset the Colts



"The Shot Heard 'Round the World"



The Munich Olympics


Acknowledgments