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Sports enthusiasts, get in the game. Test yourself on how well you know your American sports legends from the early 1900's to the present. Sixty-eight athletes, from twenty-three different sports, are featured in this book. You may know their triumphs and disappointments, but do you know their backstories? Read about them and determine who the athletes are, as well as their sports and featured events. Poems of these legends depict men and women who have overcome obstacles of race, gender, social status, economics, age and physical challenges. The book is designed to entertain the individual reader as well as the competitor who wants to challenge friends and rivals to a sports trivia contest. Find out just how much you know by uncovering the clues from poem titles and verse. If you get hung up, there are three separate hint sections, plus a complete answer key which provides the athlete's name, sport, highlighted event, date and place. Their stories will inspire and challenge. Game on.
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About the Author:
D.A. Jennings is a storyteller, who observes the world around her, and delivers her findings one poetic line at a time. She provides hope, inspiration and laughter by writing about human frailty and triumph, the absurd and humorous, and nature's gifts. Her first book, American Sports Legends: Your Turn to Score, is a poetic sports trivia challenge to identify sixty-eight sports legends from the early 1900's to the present. This book was designed to be enjoyed by individual readers and competitive groups. Her second book, One Hundred Lives: Life and Nature Poured into Poetry, is scheduled to be published in 2016. A number of her poems will also appear in Voices from the Susquehanna, Volume III, to be released in 2016.
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"I can say with great certainty that sports lovers will enjoy every single topic found within this history packed book's pages and fans of poetry will love each section's meaningful prose. This is a book for the entire family - one that you can turn to for quick review time and time again. This book engages with the reader and allows them to have an active conversation with the material. A fast-paced and exciting journey through poetry and sports."
- San Francisco Book Review
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- PublisherInlet Shade Publishing
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 099665500X
- ISBN 13 9780996655002
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages164
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