The 100 Greatest Athletes of All Time: A Sports Editor's Personal Ranking

By Bert Randolph Sugar

Book Overview

Sugar, having spent more than three decades in sports media, has selected those athletes whom he personally considers to be the best that ever played throughout the history of sports. He then ranks... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806516143
• ISBN13: 9780806516141
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.5" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

a great book

well what do you expect, it isnt biased towards boxing, boxing is the greatest sport of all time, and many great athletes have been boxers. This book is very thorough and well written.

Entertaining!! A must for trivia buffs everywhere!!!

I have known Bert Sugar personally for almost thirty years and I have always found him to be very interesting with a mind like a steel trap. Reading this book, for me, was a real treat, because, like Mr. Sugar, I fancy myself to be a fan of sports-related trivia. Unlike one previous reviewer, I found Mr. Sugar's rankings to be equally distributed among all the sports. Ranked among the top 5 were yesteryear's incarnations of Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders - multi sports stars who could do everything on and off the field. Jackie Robinson, ranked number 4, excelled at baseball, football, basketball, swimming, track, and even tennis. Number 2 rated Jim Thorpe, in addition to his success in football, baseball, and track, also won (Bert, you might or might not be aware of this!) the 1912 Intercollegiate BALLROOM DANCING championship! Coming in at number one........JIM BROWN, a FIVE sport star at Syracuse in football, baseball, basketball, track, and...get this... LACROSSE! I consider Bert's book to be a must read and a sure-fire conversation starter.