Can You Name that Team?: A Guide to Professional Baseball, Football, Soccer, Hockey, and Basketball Teams and Leagues

by David B. Biesel

Overview

Now in Paper! The only single source collection of over 950 teams in 36 major professional leagues_baseball, football, soccer, basketball, and hockey_this book also contains the first genealogy ever compiled on all these leagues, giving each team franchise and its past and present names. Section 1 is an alphabetical listing by the designation (city, state, province, or region) used by the team. This main entry section explains how the team got its name. Section 2_the 'family tree'_contains a separate listing of the teams in each of the 36 leagues, who they were, and who they became. Section 3 is an alphabetical listing of all the team names in Sections 1 and 2. With bibliography and index.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461657101
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	239
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David Biesel began his love affair with sportswriting in Washington, DC and in the Marine Corps. He has been in reference book publishing for over 25 years and worked on the Baseball Encyclopedia and other sports books while at Macmillan Publishing. He is a member of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) and the Professional Football Researchers Association.

Editorial Reviews

...this volume's greatest value is in the arrangement of its information into one source...belongs in business as well as sports reference collections.

Choice Reviews

When memory can't answer the title question, this book will.

Wilson Library Bulletin

...educational...and amusing...

AB Bookman's Weekly

...valuable...

The American

This comprehensive guide will enable avid sports-trivia fans to trace the origins and names of every team in virtually every sport.

Booklist

Onomasticians will enjoy this book as much as sports fans...Strongly recommended...

A Quarterly Journal Names

If you are a true sports fan you will love this book...fascinating reading, a delight to skim or read thru...good index...

Public Library Quarterly

...a worthwhile addition to public and high school library reference collections.

VOYA

...this volume's greatest value is in the arrangement of its information into one source...belongs in business as well as sports reference collections.

Choice

When memory can't answer the title question, this book will.--Wilson Library Bulletin

This comprehensive guide will enable avid sports-trivia fans to trace the origins and names of every team in virtually every sport.--Booklist

...this volume's greatest value is in the arrangement of its information into one source...belongs in business as well as sports reference collections.--CHOICE

From the Publisher

...this volume's greatest value is in the arrangement of its information into one source...belongs in business as well as sports reference collections.

CHOICE

This comprehensive guide will enable avid sports-trivia fans to trace the origins and names of every team in virtually every sport.

Booklist