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Timetables of sports history

Basketball
1990
Surveys the history of basketball from 1895 to the present, listing the major events, top teams, key players, and pertinent statistics for each year.
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25 years, the NFL since 1960

1985
Over 200 photographs and accompanying text describe the highlights of pro football's past quarter-century. Includes a year-by-year chronology and memorable quotations.

The unofficial guide to baseball's most unusual records

2004
Presents a collection of more than five hundred facts, feats, and milestones by baseball players, fans, umpires, owners, and coaches.

Hockey's glory days

the 1950s and '60s
2003

Bottom of the 33rd

hope, redemption, and baseball's longest game
2011
Chronicles the April 19, 1981, minor league baseball game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings, which, at thirty-three innings, became the longest game in baseball history and came to symbolize the joys, sorrows, and collective pasts and futures of the players, coaches, and fans.

Celebrating 70

Mark McGwire's historic season
1998
A photographic celebration of Mark McGwire's record-breaking baseball season, featuring a recap of each of his seventy home runs, and discussing his good-natured duel with Chicago's Sammy Sosa.

Baseball top 10

2004
A compendium of more than 225 top ten lists about baseball, covering such topics as most career strikeouts, and highest percentage of Hall of Fame votes received.

Olympic speed skating

1979
Presents accounts of Olympic speed skating competition beginning in 1924.

The 1984 Olympic Games

Sarajevo/Los Angeles
1984
Over 300 photographs and accompanying text describe the highlights of the Summer and Winter games.

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