Sporting Sensations: Great Moments in World Sport

by TheLondonEveningStandardsportswriters (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $4.27

  This covers sensational sporting events from athletics, boxing, cricket, golf, motor racing, horse racing, tennis, soccer, rugby union, snooker, baseball, skiing, ocean racing, and the Olympics. In series with the popular sporting spite, the journalists of London's leading daily newspaper reflect on the postwar years and the sensational happenings which have captured the headlines. From Bannister's Four Minute Mile and Gordon Richards First Derby win to Mike Tyson's first defeat and Graeme Hick's remarkable innings of 405. From Bob Beamon's Tokyo Long Jump beyond the measuring device and England's shock soccer defeat by the USA, to Coe's Olympic 1500m win, Olga Korbut, Mark Spitz and Alan Bond's America's Cup. These and many more events are vividly retold by these top sports writers. The contributors include Renton Laidlaw, Micahel Hart, Chris Poole and Michael Herd.