Players: 250 Men, Women & Animals Who Created Modern Sport
It may be natural to play games, but the sports we love aren't natural at all. Each and every one of them has been invented, tweaked, pushed and pulled to come up with better rules, cleverer tactics and more effective techniques. There are no prizes for guessing who invented the Cruyff Turn or the Fosbury Flop - but who invented the header or the sliding tackle? The dive pass or the scrum? The lob or the smash? The sand wedge or the tee? The googly or the flipper?This book introduces 250 men, women and animals, each of whom has transformed at least one major sport. Famous or infamous, remembered or forgotten, god-like or god-awful, the game w…
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- ISBN: 978-0-224-08277-8
- EAN: 9780224082778
- Produktnummer: 16431080
- Verlag: Yellow Jersey
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 628 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.5 cm x D4.2 cm 984 g
- Gewicht: 984
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Author Tim Harris is a former advertising copywriter and creative director who became increasingly obsessed by sporting history after a pub argument about why football shirts tend to be striped and rugby shirts hooped. He is the author of Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know.
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