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What's Wrong With Sports
by Howard Cosell
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671708406
- ISBN 13
- 9780671708405
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1991 Simon and Schuster, New York. 1991. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; two small bumps on board bottoms. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped; ($21.95); slight bumps on head and tail. Gray boards with red cloth overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 349 pp 8vo. In this book, the outspoken Mr. Cosell doesn't pull his bunches and offers no apologies as he covers the full spectrum of sports in America, from football to boxing, from the highest-paid professionals to high school amateurs. Some of what he covers is; the sports sex scandals/corruptions and greed in college sports/bigotry on the playing field/sports as big business, the disgrace of the NFL. A book that fits today's (2020) sports climate. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009678
- Title
- What's Wrong With Sports
- Author
- Howard Cosell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671708406
- ISBN 13
- 9780671708405
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Howard Cosell, sports broadcasting, radio sports commentator, television sports commentator, greed in sports, highly paid athletes, college sports as professions, bigotry in sports, BLM, racism in sports, civil rights in sports, blacks in sports, ABC Radi
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Cloth
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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