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_aUpon further review : _bthe greatest what-ifs in sports history / _c[edited by] Mike Pesca |
| 250 | _aFirst edition | ||
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_ax, 308 pages ; _c24 cm |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [287]-289) and index | ||
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_tForeword / _rby Malcolm Gladwell -- _tIntroduction / _rby Mike Pesca -- _tWhat if Muhammad Ali had gotten his draft deferment? / _rby Leigh Montville -- _tWhat if football had been deemed too boring in 1899? / _rby Jason Gay -- _tWhat if the United States had boycotted Hitler's Olympics? / _rby Shira Springer -- _tWhat if the 2017 Golden State Warriors traveled through time to play the greatest teams in NBA history? / _rby Ethan Sherwood Strauss -- _tWhat if horse racing was still the most popular sport in America? / _rby Peter Thomas Fornatale -- _tWhat if I hadn't written that fan letter to Dan Majerle in April 1993? / _rby Jesse Eisenberg -- _tWhat if Wayne Gretzky hadn't been an Oiler? / _rby Katie Baker -- _tWhat if Major League Baseball had started testing for steroids in 1991? / _rby Ben Lindbergh -- _tWhat if Bucky Dent hadn't homered over the Green Monster in 1978? / _rby Stefan Fatsis -- _tWhat if Jerry Tarkanian had beaten the NCAA and liberated college basketball? / _rby Jonathan Hock -- _tWhat if football were reinvented today? / _rby Nate Jackson -- _tWhat if there had always been sports PR flacks? / _rby L. Jon Wertheim -- _tWhat if...Title IX never was? / _rby Mary Pilon -- _tWhat if Tom Brady hadn't stepped in/taken over for an injured Drew Bledsoe? / _rby Steve Kornacki -- _tWhat if the 1999 U.S. Women's National Soccer Team had lost the Women's World Cup? / _rby Louisa Thomas -- _tWhat if the Olympics had never dropped tug-of-war? / _rby Nate DiMeo -- _tWhat if Billie Jean King had lost to Bobby Riggs? / _rby Wayne Coffey -- _tWhat if Mike Tyson had beaten Buster Douglas? / _rby Jeremy Schaap -- _tWhat if? A tour through NBA injury history / _rby Neil Paine ; _gwith introductory notes on the topic _t"What if Bernard King hadn't been injured? / _rby Mike Pesca -- _tWhat if the Dodgers had left Brooklyn? / _rby Robert Siegel -- _tWhat if a blimp full of money had exploded over World Track Headquarters in 1952? / _rby Paul Snyder -- _tWhat if baseball teams only played once a week? / _rby Will Leitch -- _tWhat if Bobby Fischer had received proper psychiatric help? / _rby Dylan Loeb McClain -- _tWhat if basketball rims were smaller than basketballs? / _rby Jon Bois -- _tWhat if the AFL-NFL merger had been complicated by the Jets' loss in Super Bowl III? / _rby Michael MacCambridge -- _tWhat if the National League had the DH? / _rby Rob Neyer -- _tWhat if Nixon had been good at football? / _rby Julian E. Zelizer -- _tWhat if Bill Walton had healthy knees? / _rby Bob Ryan -- _tWhat if Roger Bannister trained today? / _rby Liam Boylan-Pratt -- _tWhat if Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton's pass hadn't gone awry? / _rby Claude Johnson -- _tWhat if Game 7 of the 2016 World Series had turned into every sports movie ever made? / _rby Josh Levin |
| 520 | _a"From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way. No announcer ever proclaimed: "Up Rises Frazier!" "Havlicek commits the foul, trying to steal the ball!" or "The Giants Lose the Pennant, The Giants Lose The Pennant!" Such moments are indelibly etched upon the mind of every sports fan. Or rather, they would be, had they happened. Sports are notoriously games of inches, and when we conjure the thought of certain athletes - like Bill Buckner or Scott Norwood - we can't help but apply a mental tape measure to the highlight reels of our minds. Players, coaches, and of course fans, obsess on the play when they ask, "What if?" Upon Further Review is the first book to answer that question. Upon Further Review is a book of counterfactual sporting scenarios. In its pages the reader will find expertly reported histories, where one small event is flipped on its head, and the resulting ripples are carefully documented, the likes of... What if the U.S. Boycotted Hitler's Olympics? What if Bobby Riggs beat Billie Jean King? What if Bucky Dent popped out at the foot of the Green Monster? What if Drew Bledsoe never got hurt? Upon Further Review takes classic arguments conducted over pints in a pub and places them in the hands of dozens of writers, athletes, and historians. From turning points that every sports fan rues or celebrates, to the forgotten would-be inflection points that defined sports, Upon Further Review answers age old questions, and settles the score, even if the score bounced off the crossbar"-- | ||
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