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Book SynopsisThe 100 Greatest Jews in Sports takes the greatest Jewish athletes in all major sports from the past eleven decades and ranks them against each other, using a limited scope and quantitative criteria. Each decade has seen someone new emerge as the greatest Jewish athlete, from boxer Abe Attell to baseballs'' Sandy Koufax and Ken Holtzman, to golf''s Amy Alcott, to footballs'' Harris Barton. Sports profiled include baseball, basketball, hockey, tennis, golf, auto racing, boxing, soccer, football, swimming, and many others. Silverman takes a scholarly approach to ensure reliability and validity of the statistics given. The author identified the most common categories of statistics in which the highest paid athletes in all sports had excelled, and he assigned numeric values to reflect the performance categories. That provided a proportional representation of the most important individual accomplishments in sports. By applying those numbers to the records of selected athletes, each was ra
Trade ReviewIn addition to his ranking of athletes, the book contains short bios on each and covers related subjects such as unsung Jewish athletes, Jewish sports executives and milestones in Jewish sports history. * The Washington Jewish Week *
Silverman's book overflows with did-you-know factoids and is as broad in its coverage as it is compact. * Forward *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Cover Photo Credits and Captions Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 1. The Scope and Criteria of the Rankings Chapter 5 2. The Quantitative Rankings Criteria Chapter 6 3. The All-Time Rankings of Great Jewish Athletes Chapter 7 4. All-Time Rankings by Era Chapter 8 5. Unsung Jewish Athletes Chapter 9 6. Jewish Sports Team Executives Chapter 10 7. The Jewish Sports Following Chapter 11 8. Milestones in Jewish Sports History Chapter 12 9. The Jewish Sports History IQ Test Chapter 13 Epilogue Chapter 14 Index Chapter 15 About the Author
