An Athletics Compendium

B 251 - 262 Collective biographies included. This is anunreliable work: errors foafct and spelling are numerous: venuesare generallyomitted; and field event performances are given only in the Imperial (US) system. 251 Barnsley's sporting heroes / Annie Storey. Barnsley: Wharncliffe, 1997. 224p; illus; pbk ISBN; 1-871647-36-3 BL:YK.2001.a.9015 Includes profiles oDf orothy Hyman andJohn Mayock. 252 Great African Americanisn the Olympics / Shaun Hunter. Oxford: Crabtree, 1997. 64p; illus; index (Outstanding African Americans) ISBN: 0-86505-809-1 (cased)• 0-86505-823-7 (pbk) 253 Great sporting eccentrics: weird wanodnderful characters fromthe world ofsport / Geoff Tibballs. London: Robson, 1997. ix, 245p ISBN: 1-86105-122-0 BL:YK.1999.b.l525 From naked running in Lancashire (1&24) to backward running across America (1954), many obscure stories are listed itnhe athletics soenc.ti 254 Jewish sports legends: the Internadonal Jewish Sports Hall of Fame/ Joseph Siegman. 2nd ed. London: Brassey's, 1997. xxii, 222p; illus ISBN: 1-574-88128-0 BL:YK.1998.b.7228 includes brief biographies of 13 Jewish traacnkd field stars and a list of Jewish Olympic medallists. ^ Previous ed. B238; subsequent ed. B261 255 Scotland's sporting hero/es compiled bRyobert Jeffrey and Ian Watson.Edinburgh: Canongate, 1997. 128p; illus ISBN: 0-86241-732-5 BL:YK.1999.b.4316 Essentially a photographic compilation. Twenty-one male athletes (including three professionals) and two female athletes are included. 256 The book of British sportingheroes / compiled by James Huntington-Whiteiey; introduction by Richard Holt. London: National PortrGaiatllery, 1998. 239p; illus; pbk Published to accompanythe exhibition British Sporting Heroes at the National Portrait Gallery from 16 October 1998 to 24 January1999 ISBN: 1-85514-249-X BL:YK.1998.b.9274 This lavishly produced work contains images of 27 outstanding track and field athletes (or pedestrians), two prominent disabled athletes antwd o cricketers who also had outstanding, if relatively short, athletics careers tihn e nineteenthcentury. Eachentry gives a thumbnail sketch of the individual's personality, biographical informationand details of their greatest sporting achievements. The illustrations pre-dating the advent of photography are of especial interest: an 1609 aquatint of Captain Barclay, a 1755 engraving of Foster Powell, and an 1515 hand-coloured engraving of George Wilson. ^ Also listed at: L373 257 Head to head:uncovering the psychology of sporting success; interviews by Geoffrey Beattie. London: Gollancz, 1998. 288p; pbk ISBN: 0-575-06358-0 BL: YK.1998.a.4793 Of the interview transcripts derived from a B3C Radio 5 Live series, three are devoted to track and field subjects: Liz McColgan, Kelly Holmes and Jonathan Edwards. The first and third were broadcast in December 1995and the second Jain uary 1997. 258 Sporting doubles: a gallery of great sportsmen who represented their country matore than one spor/t Jeremy Malies; foreword bLyord Cowdrey. London: Robson, 1998. xiii, 197p; illus ISBN: 1-86105-230-8 BL: YK.1999.b.6249 Includes chapters on Eric LiddelBl,.CF.ry and Mildred Didrikson Zaharias. 259 Fifty legends of British spor/t C. D. Edwards; with illustrations by CliveWakfer. Penzance: United Writers, 1999. 300p; illus ISBN: 1-85200-081-3 BL: YK.1999.a.l0361 Twelve track and field athletes are featured: Bannister, Board, Coe,Cram, Davies, Hemery, Ovett, Peters, Pand, Sanderson, Thompson and Whitbread. 260Who's who inworld athletics / editebdy Mel Watman. Stanmore: Athletics International, 1999- Published annually Covers nearly 2500 athletes. Includes a concise history of the WorCldhampionships. 261 Jewish sports legends: thIenternational Jewish Sports Hall of Fame/ Joseph Siegman. 3rd ed. London: Brassey's, 2000. xxii, 222p; illus; pbk ISBN: 1-574-88128-0 BL: YK.1998.b.7228 Includes alist ofJewish Olympicmedallists anbdrief biographies ofJewish track andfield stars including K-erri Strug, Marv Levy, Daniel Mendoza, and Ike Berger. ^ Previous ed. B254 262Who's who ofUK & GB international athletes 1896- 1939 / Ian Buchanan. LondoNna:tional Union of Track Statisticians, 2000. 168p; illus; pbk Career summaries and statistics of 454 British male athletes wtohok part in35 international meetings in the years up1t9o39. [ 66 ]