The 100 Greatest Days in New York Sports
- ISBN-10
- 0618574808
- ISBN-13
- 9780618574803
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 532
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Stuart Miller
Description
A sports journalist pays tribute to great moments in New York sports history in an illustrated survey that ranks the top one hundred events that transformed American sports, from an 1823 horse race that pitted the North against the South, to Lou Gehrig's farewell speech, to the Ali-Frazier fight at the Garden, covering all of the city's storied franchises and more.
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