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Great Book of Cleveland Sports Lists.
Title:
Great Book of Cleveland Sports Lists.
Author:
Livingston, Bill.
ISBN:
9780786741694
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (327 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Dedication & Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Top Ten Cleveland Rookie Seasons -- Ten False Saviors -- All of Cleveland's Professional Teams: Then and Now -- LeBron's Top Five All-Time NBA Passers -- Deconstructing LeBron: King James' 14 Top TVCommercials (2003-2007) -- My Toughest Opponents -- Ten Steelers Who Were a Pain in the Ass -- Top Ten Glenville High School Football Players -- The Top 13 Football Players at Benedictine -- The Best Players At Each Position That I Ever Saw -- The Eleven Worst Indians' Trades-Post World War II -- My Top Ten Cleveland Sports Memories -- Five Reasons to Like Soccer -- Bill's Five Dumb Things About Soccer -- My Top Ten Cavaliers Players -- Five Things Bill Doesn't Get About the Cavaliers -- My Top Ten Indians Players of All Time -- The Ten Most Hated Baseball Players -- My Top Ten Browns Games -- Ten Lame Things Done by Browns' Personnel -- Hell's Belle: A 19-Part Tabloid Tribute to Albert Belle -- A Half-Dozen Pieces of Enduring Wisdom from Satchel Paige -- Top Ten Cleveland Professional Boxers -- Top Ten Fights I Promoted -- Seven Beautiful Actresses From Cleveland -- Top 20 Movie Lines That Could Have Been Talking About Cleveland -- The 20 Best Tribe Nicknames -- The Ten Best Cavs Nicknames -- The Ten Best Browns Nicknames -- Bernie's Top Five Browns Memories -- Top Five Cleveland State Basketball Players -- The Top Five Mid-Atlantic Conference (MAC) Players Who Played in the Basketball Tourney at The Gund/Q -- Bubba's Top Nine Barbecuing Tips -- Cleveland's Top Ten Sports Bars -- Party Names: Six Guys You'd Want to Party With -- This Bud's for You: 13 Area Sports Guys Nicknamed "Bud" or "Buddy" -- Top Ten Cavs Games I Called -- Top Ten Lame Things Done by Cavaliers Players -- Top Ten St. Ignatius High School Football Players -- Top 12 St. Edward High School Football Players.

My Top Ten Indians Games -- Five Things Other Than Rain That Stopped Indians' Games -- The Worst Cleveland Sports Injuries -- If Only They Could Have Played -- My Top Five NASCAR Drivers -- The Top Five Cleveland Grand Prix -- My Favorite Browns Players -- My Favorite Ohio State Players -- The Top Ten Cleveland Pro Coaches -- A Baker's Dozen Cleveland Coaches Who Became Famous Elsewhere -- Top Ten Reasons Why the "Genius" Labe l Didn't Stickto Bill Belichick in Cleveland -- Ten Teeny-Tiny Butch Davis Mistakes -- Top Ten Cleveland Defeats -- The Twelve Funniest Cleveland Comedians -- Top Ten Lame Things Done by Indians' Personnel -- Bob Feller's Nine Toughest Hitters -- Top Ten Figures in Cleveland Hockey History -- Bill's Five Crummy Things About the NHL -- My Top Five Memories of the 2004 Athens Olympics -- Top Five Reasons the Summer Olympics Beat the Slush Off the Winter Ones -- Top Ten Places Clevelanders Take Out-of-Town Guests to Eat -- My Top Ten Best Area Hot Dogs in Cleveland -- Five Lessons From Cleveland's All-Star Games -- Top 15 Superstitious Players, Coaches and Managers -- Five Players Who Were a Pleasure to Coach -- Five Players Who Were A Challenge to Coach -- The Seven Toughest Cornerbacks I Faced -- My Five Toughest Centers to Play Against -- Top Ten Shoulda's (1980 and Later) -- Nicknames That Shoulda' Made It -- A Baker's Dozen of Memorable Quotes by Cleveland Sports Figures -- Ten Examples of Charley Manuel Dexterity -- My 14 Favorite Indians Players -- My 12 Most Hated Yankees -- Top Five Herb Score Memories -- Ten Inexactly Expressed Sentiments from Herb Score -- Top Ten Revolting Developments Since 1964 -- Top 18 Names That Sound Dirty, But Really Aren't -- The Dean's List: Greg's Ten Classiest Clevel and Sports Figures -- Ten Nicknames That Weren't Complimentary -- My Top Cavs Memories.

Bill's Answers to Five Common Slurs on the NBA -- Your Name's Your Game: Seven Guys With Names That Matched Their Professions -- Not the Best Names for Sports: Seven Guys With Names That Created Mismatches -- The Ten Best Things About Major League -- Problems with Major League -- Top Ten Movies Shot in Cleveland -- Ten Platters That Matter -- My Toughest Opponents -- Top Ten Indoor Soccer Players -- Top Five Local Golfers -- Top Ten Cleveland Area Golf Courses -- The All-Time Cleveland Track Team -- The 11 Fastest Men I Ever Saw -- Ten Names That Require Spell Check -- Stop the Insanity: Seven New Rules for "Namecalling" -- A Dozen Cleveland Sports Mascots -- Top 11 Most Hated Basketball Players -- Five Things Bill Doesn't Get About the Browns -- Five Things Bill Doesn't Get About Jim Tressel -- Five Things Bill Doesn't Get About the Indians -- Bill's Six Inconvenient Truths About Baseball -- My Top Skaters -- Top Ten Cleveland Bowlers -- Eleven Defunct Cleveland Sports Teams -- Eleven Things You Didn't Know About the Cleveland Rams -- Martydumb: Five Stupid Quotes From Marty Schottenheimer -- Formations Innovations From the Wily Schottenheimer -- Cleveland Sports Countdown -- A Baker's Dozen Who Came Out of Nowhere -- Ten Most Hated Non-Players -- Ten Best Sportswriters in Cleveland Since 1980 -- Railbird Roberts' All-Time Top Ten Ohio-bred Thoroughbreds -- Ten Most Hated Opposing Football Players and Coaches -- Not That Guy: 21 Sports Figures With Names That Make Them Easy to Confuse With Somebody Else -- A Dozen Names That Are Just Fun -- My Five Favorite Browns Players -- LeBron's Ten Favorite Teams -- The Ten Best Local Sports Things That Aren'ton Other Lists -- The Dean's List: The Browns' 12 (10 Just Won't Cut It) Worst Draft Picks Since 1970 -- The Dean's List: Ten Best Indians' Trades Since World War II.

The Dean's List: The Dozen Worst Cavs' First-Round Draft Picks -- The Dean's List: Ten Players Who Showed Up in Cleveland with Little Left in Their Tanks -- The Dean's List: Cleveland's Best Play-by-Play Announcers -- Ten All-Time Favorite Browns Players -- My Five Least Memorable Interviews -- The Dean's List: Top Ten Local Radio Personalities -- The Top Ten Things I Miss About Cleveland -- Groups That Can't Keep Meeting Like This -- The 10 Best Seasons Cleveland Athletes Ever Had -- The Top 100 Athletes from the Cleveland Area.
Abstract:
Sports talk in America has evolved from small-time barroom banter into a major media smorgasbord that runs 24/7 on TV and radio. With hundreds of billions of dollars generated annually by pro and college teams in major markets nationwide, sports fans across the country are more dedicated than ever to their teams. And when it comes to sports talk-especially all-sports radio-it's all about entertainment, information, prognostication, analysis, rankings, and endless discussion. Prominent sports-media figures in each of the three target cities-Cleveland, Detroit, and Washington, D.C.-engage in this phenomenon with a compilation of sports lists sure to delight as well as stir up debate within these already-buzzing sports communities.List topics include: What were the most lopsided trades in local sports history? Who were the most overrated athletes to play in our town? What local athlete had the best appearance in TV or film? What was the most heartbreaking loss in local sports history? What was the greatest single play in local sports history? Who are our team's most hated rivals? Plus dozens of "guest" lists contributed by famous local sports and entertainment celebrities. With franchises in three of the four major pro sports-the Browns (NFL), the Indians (MLB), and the Cavaliers (NBA)-plus a dedicated following of the Ohio State University athletics, Cleveland's fans are some of the most rabid and knowledgeable in the country, and Bill Livingston and Greg Brinda are the acknowledged authorities on Cleveland-area sports..
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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