The Sports 100

by Bert Randolph Sugar

Book Overview

Sugar, having spent more than three decades in sports media, has selected those athletes whom he personally considers to be the best that ever played throughout the history of sports. He then ranks... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806518723
• ISBN13: 9780806518725
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Thoroughly entertaining

Bert chose the 100 greatest atheletes of all time, but the reader must understand that these are his choices, not yours. Who is ever going to agree with lists like these? THe previous critique of Berts book said that there was aheavy slant to boxers, which there is not. Ali, Robinson, Louis, Dempsey, Johnson, Armstrong and Pep are the only fighters chosen. 7 boxers in a list of 100 athletes is not a heavy slant. One could make the argument that he left out too many fighters. Bert's list, like all other lists of it's like. are very subjective. They are derived from personal opinions and are meant to strike up debates. I did not agree with several inclusions and omissions, but the book was an excellent read. Bert is a very entertaining writer and his profiles on each athlete was well worth the purchase. The selections and order, I felt were secondary. A must buy for sports fanatics