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Sport / Nancy Dickmann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Strange but truePublisher: London : Franklin Watts, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781445156996
  • 1445156997
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The weird side of sport -- Ancient sport -- Wacky races -- Marathon matches -- Nature stops play -- Sporting superstitions -- Creative cheating -- Going to extremes -- Troublesome tech -- Unlikely competitors -- Mistaken identity? -- Sports you've never heard of -- Stranger than fiction.
Summary: Sport can bring moments of joy and huge emotion. It can also bring moments of supreme weirdness! Some of sport's oddest stories are almost too strange to be believed. From lucky socks and alligators on the golf course to marathon runners who let the train take the strain, this book uncovers some of the strangest true stories in the history of sport. It's a great fun read for any sports fan aged 8+.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 796 D553 Available 33111009376001
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 796 D553 Available 33111009695624
Children's Book Children's Book Northport Library Children's NonFiction 796 D553 Available 33111008240976
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Discover sport's most brilliant and bizarre true stories

Sport can bring moments of joy and huge emotion. It can also bring moments of supreme weirdness! Some of sport's oddest stories are almost too strange to be believed. From lucky socks and alligators on the golf course to marathon runners who let the train take the strain, this book uncovers some of the strangest true stories in the history of sport. It's a great fun read for any sports fan aged 8+.

If you enjoyed this book, why not look out for Strange but True: Football .

Includes index.

The weird side of sport -- Ancient sport -- Wacky races -- Marathon matches -- Nature stops play -- Sporting superstitions -- Creative cheating -- Going to extremes -- Troublesome tech -- Unlikely competitors -- Mistaken identity? -- Sports you've never heard of -- Stranger than fiction.

Sport can bring moments of joy and huge emotion. It can also bring moments of supreme weirdness! Some of sport's oddest stories are almost too strange to be believed. From lucky socks and alligators on the golf course to marathon runners who let the train take the strain, this book uncovers some of the strangest true stories in the history of sport. It's a great fun read for any sports fan aged 8+.

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