The fifty finest athletes of the 20th century : a worldwide reference /
Profiles superachievers in thirteen different sports, grouped in the categories "The Top Twenty," "The Runners-up," and "The Greatest Athlete of the Twentieth Century."
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co.,
[1990]
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Table of Contents:
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Larry Joe Bird
- James Nathaniel Brown
- Wilton Norman Chamberlain
- Tyrus Raymond Cobb
- Mildred Ella Didrikson
- Joseph Paul DiMaggio
- Wayne Gretsky
- Gordon Howe
- Joe Louis
- Christopher Mathewson
- Willie Howard Mays
- Jack William Nicklaus
- James Cleveland Owens
- Pele
- Sugar Ray Robinson
- George Herman Ruth
- James Francis Thorpe
- John Unitas
- Theodore Samuel Williams
- Muhammad Ali
- Sammy Baugh
- Robert Joseph Cousy
- William Harrison Dempsey
- Henry Louis Gehrig
- Harold Edward Grange
- Eric Arthur Heiden
- Sonja Henie
- Rogers Hornsby
- Walter Perry Johnson
- Robert Tyre Jones
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Sandford Koufax
- Rodney Laver
- Gregory Efthimios Louganis
- Robert Bruce Mathias
- Martina Navratilova
- Paavo Nurmi
- Robert Gordon Orr
- Arnold Palmer
- Oscar Palmer Robertson
- Jack Roosevelt Robinson
- William Fenton Russell
- William Lee Shoemaker
- Warren Edward Spahn
- Mark Andrew Spitz
- William Tilden
- John Peter Wagner
- Johnny Weissmuller
- Emil Zapotek
- Babe Ruth.