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Steffi Graf, tennis champ

1996
A biography of the West German tennis player who won her first Grand Slam tournament at seventeen and beat Martina Navratilova to win her first Wimbledon tournament in 1989.

Mia Hamm: Good as Gold

Eric Dickerson

record-breaking rusher
1985
A brief biography of one of the star players of the Los Angeles Rams football team.

Jim Plunkett, the comeback kid

1984
A sports biography of Jim Plunkett, a football player with a fighting spirit who knows how to "keep coming back.".

Danny White, the kicking quarterback

1983
A biography of the quarterback, punter, and team captain for the Dallas Cowboys, who was named 1982 Dallas Father of the Year.

Tiger Woods

driving force
1998
A biography of Tiger Woods, son of an Asian mother and an African-American father and the youngest golfer to ever win the Masters Tournament.

Kenny Lofton

man of steal
1998
A biography of the base-stealing outfielder for the Atlanta Braves who has won four Golden Gloves in his first five seasons as a major league player.

Randy Johnson

the big unit
1998
A biography of the six-foot ten-inch pitcher who in 1995 won the American League Cy Young award for the Seattle Mariners.

Ken Griffey, Jr.

all-American slugger
1998
A biography of the centerfielder and power hitter for the Seattle Mariners, who entered professional baseball when he was only seventeen-years-old.

Wayne Gretzky

the great Gretzky
1982
A biography of the center for the Edmonton Oilers, said by many people to be the best player in the history of hockey.

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