The 100 Greatest Jews in Sports: Ranked According to Achievement
- ISBN-10
- 0810847752
- ISBN-13
- 9780810847750
- Category
- Jewish athletes
- Pages
- 188
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Author
- B. P. Robert Stephen Silverman
Description
"This book provides a proportional representation of the most important individual accomplishments in sports. Silverman identifies the most common categories of statistics in which the highest paid athletes in all sports have excelled, and he assigns numeric values to reflect the performance categories.
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