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    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Sports
    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Sports
    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Sports
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    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Sports

    By Yucca Road Productions

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    Somewhere in the world, at this very moment, there is an event unfolding that is so incredibly important that people scream in horror or cheer in joy, win or lose fortunes, soar to new heights or sink into oblivion.

    Yep, that's sports for ya.

    Sure, there are folks who don't give a flying fedora about the game, whatever it is. But do you know any of those people? Didn't think so.

    And, chances are, you'd like to know more than you already do about the games we love. That is why you're here, right?

    Here's how we got the bug. We were helping a friend study for the contestant quiz of the Jeopardy! Game show when we realized we had accumulated enough material to help out almost anyone. A student, game show contestant, or the armchair quarterback, center or pitcher who'd love to get into the game.

    KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Sports gathers facts from baseball, bowling, racing, tennis, the Olympics, sailing, hockey, football, bicycling, and more. Teams, heroes, rules, and records can be found here.

    Test your sports IQ now:

    What flamboyant Italian ("La Bomba") grabbed his second consecutive Olympic gold medal on the slopes of Albertville?
    What Brazilian superstar was called "The Black Pearl" of soccer?
    What was the last year of less-than-100 mph at Indy?
    What is a "full count" in baseball?
    Who was "Big O?" Who was "Doctor J?"
    Where are the sports halls of fame? The Preakness?
    How many players on a soccer team? A polo team?

    Did you answer all the questions correctly? No? Well, then...

    The KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Series compresses a great mountain of available information into easily digestible morsels. You'll find the books are patterned in an efficient question-and-answer mode, stressing simplicity, brevity, and clarity.

    You can use this reference work as a launch pad to propel yourself into more in-depth studies. However, if you find this little study guide provides all the information you need, then consider your knowledge...
    Blasted!

    We wish you the best of luck in your quest for knowledge in this fascinating subject. 'Bye now.

    And, oh yes, buy now!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYucca Road Productions
    Release dateJun 14, 2020
    ISBN9780463836798
    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Sports
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    Yucca Road Productions

    Yucca Road Productions started as all great enterprises do... having a cup of coffee with friends at the kitchen table. One of our little gang of misfits had decided he was destined to appear on the Jeopardy! game show. The rest of us were foolhardy enough to volunteer our surprisingly diverse knowledge sets for the task of preparing him for said destiny.A couple years later, we had accumulated so much info, it was nuts. After deleting what we decided was "trivia" in the game show's dozen or so most-used categories, we figured we could teach anybody to do well on a game show. Or an exam. Or trivia night at the neighborhood pub. Oh, yes... we nailed that one.And so, the Knowledge Blaster! series was conceived and delivered!Then Terry Marsh wrote a couple novels and approached us about getting them published. We liked the books. So, after coercing him into buying bagels for everybody, we added him to our list of ne'er-do-wells.Then Leo Moss surprised us with a book of more-or-less poetry and a novel about a reluctant magic man. We added his works to the list, too. We had to. Moss is the only guy in the group who can spell without a dictionary (so we made him editor), and we just can't find anybody else who will work for the "prestige" of it. Just kidding, Leo.So, time passes, as is its habit. We're still at the kitchen table, wondering what might happen next. We hope it involves pizza, but you never know.

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      Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Sports - Yucca Road Productions

      Knowledge Blaster! Guide to

      Sports

      By Yucca Road Productions

      Copyright 2020 Yucca Road Productions

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      The Knowledge BLASTER! Series consists of books of general and academic interest, written with the specific intention of compressing a great mountain of available information into an easily digestible morsel.

      You can use this reference work as a launch pad to propel yourself into more in-depth studies. However, if you find this little book provides all the information you need, then consider your knowledge...

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      Contents

      Olympian Feats

      Not All Links Are Sausage: Golf

      Pedal Pushers: Bicycling

      Playing in the Alley: Bowling

      Put Up Your Dukes: Boxing

      Those Quirky Olympics Rules!

      What a Kick: Football

      Puck-er Up: Ice Hockey

      The Sport of Kings: Horse Racing

      Makin’ a Racket: Tennis

      Airborne Troops: Basketball

      Goin’ Batty: Baseball

      Pedal to the Metal

      Miscellaneous Heroes and Antics

      Olympian Feats

      This native American won the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.

      — Jim Thorpe. He has been named the Outstanding Athlete for the first half of the 20th century.

      In September of 1988, how many gold medals did sisters-in-law Florence Griffith-Joyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee win?

      —Five. Jackie won the long jump and heptathlon; Florence (Flo-Jo) won the 100, 200 meter races, and the 400 meter relay.

      This outstanding Norwegian woman took the gold for figure skating in the 1928, ‘32, and ‘36 Olympics.

      —Sonja Henie.

      What American won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics, bringing a frown to Adolph Hitler?

      —Jesse Owens.

      Who was the Czechoslovakian runner that turned a long and powerful stride into gold as the long-distance winner in 1948 and ‘52?

      —Emil Zatopec.

      This US Olympian got better with time, taking the gold in the discus event in ‘56, ‘60, ‘64, and ‘68.

      —Al Oerter.

      In the 1968 Olympics, this American shattered all records for the long jump.

      —Bob Beamon, with a jump of better than 29 feet.

      This New York governor (soon to be a great President of the United States) opened the Lake Placid

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