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Feats and Defeats: 150 Answers to Questions You Never Thought to Ask - Softcover

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9781450893350: Feats and Defeats: 150 Answers to Questions You Never Thought to Ask

Synopsis

A perfect gift for your favorite sports fan, Feats and Defeats contains 150 fascinating, informative articles answering questioning about strange sports, notable records, interesting sports personalities, and more.
The book is divided into 12 chapters: Across Sports; Events to Remember; Getting into Gear; Grab Bag; How and Why; How It All Got Started; Language and Lingo; Myths and Truths; The Olympic Games; Feats and Facts for the History Books; Remarkable People; and The Odd, the Obscure, and the Just Plain Strange.
Find out about the time a children's movie interrupted coverage of a football game, the proper gear for underwater hockey, where the trampoline came from, how the Super Bowl got its name, and which hockey player has spent the most time in the penalty box.

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