Profiles superachievers in thirteen different sports, grouped in the categories "The Top Twenty, " "The Runners-up, " and "The Greatest Athlete of the Twentieth Century."

Provides biographical information on such women athletes as Oakley, Didrikson, Gibson, and Comaneci.

Biographical sketches of fifty American athletes who represent eleven different sports.

Memorial: John B. Harhai.

Sportswriters Kavanagh and Tackach survey baseball, basketball, boxing, football, golf, ice hockey, tennis, and the Olympics to profile 100 of the century's greatest competitors. Each biography is accompanied by outstanding color and black and white action photos.

This single-source guide to selected biographical dictionaries and directories covers the entire spectrum of biographical sources (serial and nonserial) that have been published in the last ten years. In each entry the book gives complete bibliographic information along with price and a critical evaluation. Most entries have been selected from American Reference Books Annual (ARBA), between 1986 and 1997. Organized in two broad categories-International and National Biographies and Biographies in Professional Fields-listings are also easily accessed through detailed author/title and subject indexes. This work will be valuable to reference librarians, researchers, and others who require information on the lives of individuals from all fields of study and all time periods, and of particular use to those involved in the library acquisition process.