This fourteen-volume set, arranged alphabetically, presents brief biographies of great sports personalities, past and present, from around the world.
Content Note
v. 1. Hank Aaron - Jim Abbott - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Freddy Adu - Andre Agassi - Troy Aikman - Grover Alexander - Vasily Alexeyev - Muhammad Ali - Ted Allen - Gary Anderson - Paul Anderson - Mario Andretti - Carmelo Anthony - Earl Anthony - Eddie Arcaro - Lance Armstrong - Arthur Ashe - Evelyn Ashford - Red Auerbach - v. 2. Shirley Babashoff - Ann Bancroft - Ernie Banks - Roger Bannister - Sammy Baugh - Elgin Baylor - Bob Beamon - David Beckham - Jean Beliveau - James Bell - Johnny Bench - Joan Benoit Samuelson - Yogi Berra - Matt Biondi - Larry Bird - Sue Bird - Bonnie Blair - Fanny Blankers-Koen - Barry Bonds - Bjorn Borg - Bill Bradley - Terry Bradshaw - Tom Brady - v. 3. Elton Brand - Craig Breedlove - Jim Brown - Paul Brown - Kobe Bryant - Sergei Bubka - Susan Butcher - Dick Butkus - Dick Button - Vince Carter - Tracy Caulkins - Wilt Chamberlain - Roger Clemens - Roberto Clemente - Ty Cobb - Nadia Comaneci - Jimmy Connors - Margaret Court - Bob Cousy - Sidney Crosby - Larry Csonka - Dizzy Dean - v. 4. Mary Decker Slaney - Oscar De La Hoya - Jack Dempsey - Gail Devers - Joe DiMaggio - Stacy Dragila - Clyde Drexler - Jean Driscoll - Tim Duncan - Dale Earnhardt - Gertrude Ederle - John Elway - Julius Erving - Janet Evans - Chris Evert - Patrick Ewing - Brett Favre - Roger Federer - Eddie Feigner - Bob Feller - Herve Filion - Jennie Finch - Bobby Fischer - v. 5. Peggy Fleming - John Force - Whitey Ford - George Foreman - Dick Fosbury - Four Horsemen - Jimmie Foxx - A.J. Foyt - Joe Frazier - David Freeman - Dan Gable - Gary Gait - Don Garlits - Kevin Garnett - Haile Gebrselassie - Lou Gehrig - Althea Gibson - Josh Gibson - George Gipp - Jeff Gordon - W.G. Grace - Steffi Graf - Cammi Granato - v. 6. Red Grange - Wayne Gretzky - Florence Griffith-Joyner - Lefty Grove - Lou Groza - Dorothy Hamill - Scott Hamilton - Mia Hamm - Franco Harris - Dominik Hasek - John Havlicek - Tony Hawk - Eric Heiden - Rickey Henderson - Sonja Henie - Sir Edmund Hillary - Tommy Hitchcock - Mat Hoffman - Ben Hogan - Evander Holyfield - Willie Hoppe - Rogers Hornsby - Gordie Howe - v. 7. Brett Hull - Don Hutson - Allen Iverson - Bo Jackson - Joe Jackson - Reggie Jackson - Jaromir Jagr - LeBron James - Bruce Jenner - Derek Jeter - Jack Johnson - Magic Johnson - Randy Johnson - Walter Johnson - Bobby Jones - Michael Jordan - Joan Joyce - Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Duke Kahanamoku - Jason Kidd - Harmon Killebrew - v. 8. Jean-Claude Killy - Billie Jean King - Karch Kiraly - Olga Korbut - Sandy Koufax - Kathy Kusner - Michelle Kwan - Marion Ladewig - Kenesaw Mountain Landis - Dick Lane - Rod Laver - Mario Lemieux - Meadowlark Lemon - Suzanne Lenglen - Sugar Ray Leonard - Lisa Leslie - Carl Lewis - Vince Lombardi - Nancy Lopez - Greg Louganis - Joe Louis - Jerry Lucas - v. 9. John Madden - Karl Malone - Peyton Manning - Mickey Mantle - Diego Maradona - Pete Maravich - Rocky Marciano - Dan Marino - Roger Maris - Pedro Martinez - Christy Mathewson - Bob Mathias - Willie Mays - Willie McCovey - John McEnroe - Tracy McGrady - John McGraw - Mark McGwire - Kevin McHale - Donovan McNabb - Phil Mickelson - George Mikan - Dick Miles - Cheryl Miller - Shannon Miller - v. 10. Earl Monroe - Joe Montana - Helen Wills Moody - Cesar Mora - Annemarie Moser-Proell - Shirley Muldowney - Isaac Murphy - Eddie Murray - Ty Murray - Stan Musial - Nedo Nadi - Bronko Nagurski - James Naismith - Joe Namath - Steve Nash - Martina Navratilova - Byron Nelson - Jack Nicklaus - Hidetaka Nishiyama - Paavo Nurmi - Annie Oakley - Sadaharu Oh - Apolo Anton Ohno - v. 11. Hakeem Olajuwon - Shaquille O'Neal - Bobby Orr - Jesse Owens - Terrell Owens - Satchel Paige - Arnold Palmer - Travis Pastrana - Danica Patrick - Carly Patterson - Walter Payton - Pele - Richard Petty - Michael Phelps - Jacques Plante - Albert Pujols - Mary Lou Retton - Grantland Rice - Jerry Rice - Maurice Richard - Cal Ripken, Jr. - v. 12. Oscar Robertson - Jackie Robinson - Sugar Ray Robinson - Knute Rockne - Alex Rodriguez - Ben Roethlisberger - Ronaldinho - Pete Rose - Patrick Roy - Wilma Rudolph - Bill Russell - Babe Ruth - Nolan Ryan - Pete Sampras - Barry Sanders - Cael Sanderson - Gale Sayers - Arnold Schwarzenegger - Maria Sharapova - Bill Shoemaker - v. 13. Emmitt Smith - Sam Snead - Randy Snow - Bud Somerville - Annika Sorenstam - Warren Spahn - Mark Spitz - Roger Staubach - John Stockton - Picabo Street - Jim Sullivan - John L. Sullivan - Pat Summitt - Ichiro Suzuki - Sheryl Swoopes - Irena Szewinska - Lawrence Taylor - Ian Thorpe - Jim Thorpe - Felix Trinidad - Johnny Unitas - Bill Veeck - v. 14 Dwyane Wade - Honus Wagner - Kerri Walsh - Pop Warner - Johnny Weissmuller - Jerry West - Byron White - Shaun White - Michelle Wie - Lauryn Williams - Ted Williams - Williams Sisters (Venus and Serena) - Walter Ray Williams, Jr. - John Wooden - Tiger Woods - Yao Ming - Cy Young - Babe Zaharias - Emil Zatopek.