The 100 Greatest Jews in Sports

B. P. Robert Stephen Silverman

doi:10.5771/9781461671688

Summary

The 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 ranked against the other. Additionally, the author asked selected experts of each sport to perform the same ranking with no specific criteria, and the results were the same.

Filled with historic photographs of the athletes profiled, and interspersed with interesting tidbits of each athlete's personal life and career, this book is certain to be of interest to the casual to serious sports enthusiast alike.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2003
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-4775-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-7168-8
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 189
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Cover Photo Credits and Captions No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Preface No access
Chapter 1: The Scope and Criteria of the Rankings No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 2: The Quantitative Ranking Criteria No access Pages 7 - 14
Chapter 3: The All-Time Ranking of Great Jewish Athletes No access Pages 15 - 138
Chapter 4: All-Time Rankings by Era No access Pages 139 - 142
Chapter 5: Unsung Jewish Athletes No access Pages 143 - 148
Chapter 6: Jewish Sports Team Executives No access Pages 149 - 156
Chapter 7: The Jewish Sports Following No access Pages 157 - 166
Chapter 8: Milestones in Jewish Sports History No access Pages 167 - 172
Chapter 9: The Jewish Sports History IQ Test No access Pages 173 - 180
Epilogue No access Pages 181 - 182
Index No access Pages 183 - 186
About the Author No access Pages 187 - 189