Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc.Īge retrieval systems-without the written permission of the publisher. Imaging and Multimedia Content Randy Basset, Dean Dauphinais, Leitha Etheridge-Sims, Lezlie Light, Dan W. Notable Sports Figures is recommended for high-school, public, and academic libraries where budget dollars will allow purchase.ġ NOTABLE SPORTS FIGURES Dana Barnes, Editor VOLUME 1 Įditorial Support Services Charlene Lewis, Sue PetrusĮditorial Laura Avery, Luann Brennan, Frank Castronova, Leigh Ann DeRemer, Andrea Henderson, Kathy Nemeh, Angela Pilchak, Tracie Ratiner, Bridget Travers
However, having all of the notables in one reference set will save the reference librarian time in searching for authoritative sources. Admittedly these two volumes are restricted to American or North American sports coverage, but after scanning the geographic index in Notable Sports Figures, it is quite evident that the emphasis is on American athletes. Other valuable features are the three indexes: a geographic index, an occupational index, and cumulative subject index that provides access under team name, religion, awards, position played, and even diseases, such as HIV/AIDS.Notable Sports Figures does not necessarily fill a void in biographical coverage of athletes when one considers the recent publication of several other sources, such as Encyclopedia of North American Sports History (2d ed., Facts On File, 2002) or The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: Sports Figures (2002). Sidebars provide chronologies of events in the lives of the subjects, lists of major awards and accomplishments, statistics, extracts from material such as magazine articles, and brief biographies of individuals who played significant roles in the sports figures' lives. The criteria for selection included ''first'' achievements, impact on sport and then society, records set or broken, and involvement in controversial or newsworthy activities on or off the field.Each entry is arranged alphabetically and contains a 1,000- to 2,500-word essay, contact information for the subject, and further readings, including Web sites. More than 600 biographies cover not only athletes but also coaches, team executives, media figures, writers, and sportscasters. This work attempts to cover all international, seminal sports figures from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in all disciplines.