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Champions : stories of ten remarkable athletes / by Bill Littlefield ; paintings by Bernie Fuchs ; with a foreword by Frank Deford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Littlefield, Bill.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Athletes--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Athletes.
- United States.
- Athletes--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Athletes--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 132 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Champions
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; Toronto ; London : Little, Brown and Company, [©1993]
- Summary:
- A collection of sports profiles exploring athletes who have made extraordinary achievements, grown beyond their successes, and given something back to their sports.
- Contents:
- Satchel Paige baseball pitcher
- Julie Krone jockey
- Edson Arantes do Nascimento ("Pele") soccer player
- Joan Benoit Samuelson runner
- Nate "Tiny" Archibald basketball player
- Susan Butcher dogsled racer
- Muhammad Ali boxer
- Billie Jean King tennis player
- Diana Golden skier
- Roberto Clemente baseball player.
- Notes:
- "First Edition."
- Includes "Suggested Reading" and index.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0316528056
- 9780316528054
- OCLC:
- 26674348
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