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Great Sports Fails.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Campbell, Grace.
Series:
Searchlight Books (tm) -- Celebrating Failure
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sports--History--Juvenile literature.
Sports.
Sports upsets--Juvenile literature.
Sports upsets.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (36 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Minneapolis : Lerner Publishing Group, 2020.
Summary:
Sports are all about great strategy and overcoming obstacles, right? Not always! Sometimes failures in sports are as exciting as successes. Learn about the biggest fails--from an NFL team blowing a 35-3 lead in a playoff game to the Boston Red Sox selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. Discover how athletes and teams have dealt with failure and how they've improved after their mistakes.
Contents:
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Information
Contents
Chapter 1 The Comeback
Chapter 2 Living in Infamy
Chapter 3 Mismanaged, Rigged, and Disgraced
Chapter 4 The Twelfth Man
Glossary
Learn More about Sports Fails
Index
Photo Acknowledgments
Back Cover.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9781541594357
1541594355
9781541583405
154158340X
OCLC:
1104920432

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