Talking Points

• Examines baseball, football, basketball, basketball, hockey, tennis, boxing, and horse racing, as well as golf and stickball.

• Covers every New York team- the Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Islanders, and Devils. The book even includes the long-gone Brooklyn Dodgers and baseball Giants.

• Includes personalities like John J. McGraw, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson, Roger Maris, Casey Stengel, Tom Seaver, Reggie Jackson, Derek Jeter, and George Steinbrenner of baseball.

• Also includes personalities like Vince Lombardi, Joe Namath, Mark Gastineau, Wayne Chrebet, and Wellington Mara of football, along with Clyde Frazier, Patrick Ewing, Pat Riley, and Isiah Thomas of basketball.

• Various chapters focus on statistical breakdowns, historical analysis, performance comparisons, social influences, cultural impacts, sports financing, team rivalries, player styles, humor, and parody.

• Advocates for the underrated, including Allie Reynolds, Walter O’Malley, Casey Stengel, Alex Rodriguez, Clyde Frazier, the expansion Islanders, and the Devils franchise.

• Takes on the overrated, including Roger Maris, Vince Lombardi, Joe Namath, Bill Parcells, Wellington Mara, and Mike Tyson.

• Also covers the overlooked, including Fred Merkle, Chuck Dressen, Horace Stoneham, the new Yankee Stadium, the ‘Brooklyn Nets’, and the Triple Crown.

• Off-beat topics include sports traditions, memorable fans, colorful quotes, franchise moves, proud moments & low moments, team rivalries & personal rivalries, myths, awards, athlete-celebrities, expansion teams, ‘guaranteed’ wins, player etiquette, and the state of sports.

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‘The Best New York Sports Arguments:

The 100 Most Controversial, Debatable Questions for Die-Hard Fans’

SourceBooks, Inc. • On-Sale Date: November 28, 2006 • 270 pages

$14.95 • ISBN: 1-4022-0823-5

Posted 9/1/2006 @ 5:20 PM | Talking Points