Ten Moments that Shook the Sports World
Author | : Stan Isaacs |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2008-07-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781602396289 |
ISBN-13 | : 1602396280 |
Rating | : 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The Shot Heard Round the World, in 1951. The Fight of the Century, in 1971. The horror of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Secretariat's legendary win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes. Stan Isaacs saw them all live. Isaacs covered thousands of sports stories in his more than fifty years as a journalist. But ten moments stand out in his memory. Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World offers Isaacs's eyewitness accounts of the events that changed sports history. This collection offers those old enough to remember these events a chance to relive them, and younger sports lovers will get to hear this history from someone who was there. Isaacs makes sports history live again.