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Sign up for our monthly email alertsThe 100 Greatest Jews in Sports
Ranked According to Achievement
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Sports & Recreation » Football
Sports & Recreation » Sports & Recreation (General)
Religion » Religion (General)
Area Studies » Jewish Studies
Sports & Recreation » Baseball
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"In addition to his ranking of athletes, the book contains short bios on each and covers related subjects such as unsung Jewish athletes, Jewish sports executives and milestones in Jewish sports history."
— THE WASHINGTON JEWISH WEEK
DESCRIPTION
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
B.P. Robert Stephen Silverman brings to the table a unique blend of a Ph.D. in Philosophy, and a sports commentator with a sense of humor. He is the author of The Jewish Athletes' Hall of Fame and Defending Animals' Rights is the Right Thing to Do. At the age of 19, he won a DCAAU gold medal in weight lifting. He is a journalist and graphics designer by profession, having published numerous articles in business and communications journals.
