Great Athletes: Basketball by Salem Press Editors
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Overview: Great Athletes: Basketball is part of Salem Press’s greatly expanded and redesigned Great Athletes series, which also includes self-contained volumes on baseball, boxing and soccer, football, golfand tennis, Olympic sports, and racing and individual sports. The full 13-volume series presents articles on the lives, sports careers, and unique achievements of1,470 outstanding competitors andchampions in the world ofsports. These athletes—many of whom have achieved world renown—represent more than 75 different nations and territories and more than 80 different sports. Their stories are told in succinct, 1,000-word-long profiles accessible in toneand style to readers in grades 7and up. The 13 Great Athletes volumes, which include a cumulative index volume, are built on the work of three earlier Salem Press publications designed for middle and high school readers—the 20 slender volumes of The Twentieth Century: Great Athletes (1992), their 3-volume supplement (1994), and the 8 stouter volumes of Great Athletes, Revised (2002). This new 13-volume edition retains articles on every athlete covered in those earlier editions and adds more than 415 entirely new articles—a 40 percent increase—tobring the overall total to 1,470 articles. This basketball volume adds 41 new articles to the 108 in the previous edition to cover a total of 149 basketball players. The content of other articles has been reviewed and updated as necessary, with many articles substantially revised, expanded, or replaced, and the bibliographical citations for virtually all articles have been updated. Information in every article is current through the late part of the 2008-2009 basketball season.
Criteria for Inclusion Within these pages, readers will find articles on
virtually all the legends of basketball—from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Nate Archibald to John Wooden and JamesWorthy. In selecting newnames to add to Great Athletes: Basketball, first consideration was given to undeniable players whose extraordinary achievements have made their names household words, such as Michael Cooper, Lisa Leslie, Steve Nash, and Brazil’s legendary Oscar Schmidt. Consideration was next given to players who during the early twenty-first century appeared destined for great future achievements, such as CarmeloAnthony, Candace Parker, and Yao Ming.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs Sport
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