SPORTS SHORTS - Astonishing, Strange but True

New York: Bantam Pathfinder - Bantam Books, 1969. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Later Printing. 184 pp. Bantam Pathfinder HP4396. Edge and corner wear with a bindery ripple on an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white drawings. The stories here are: A Fly Decided a Billiard Championship; From Prison to Parliament; The Slave Who Became Heavyweight Champion; The Fistic Marathon; The Australian Wonder; A Duel Over a Football Game; Rugged Football Team; The Amazing Annie Oakley; $50,000 for 100 Yards; The Foot Race that Lost 20 Million Dollars; All Alone; The Record Breaker; The Strange Opening Day; A Pitcher for the World Series; The Costliest Baseball Fight; The Baseball Game that Almost Caused a War; A Present for Mother on Mother's Day; The Outfielder Who Turned Evangelist; Baseball's Strangest Mystery; The Baseball Game that Was Snowed Out; A Horse Race for Style; A Horse Race Brought Woman's Suffrage to England; A Dog that Made History; A College Dean Swapped for a Football Coach; The Perfect Lover; Felix the Fourth; The War of Waycross; The Jinx of Number Two; The Man Who Never Won; The Pickpocket Who Fiddled; Stop that Fight; A Double No-Hitter; The Track Idol Who Became a Beggar; A Song for a Runner; A Foolish Duel Between Two Wise Men; The Horse Owner Who Killed a Man; A Duel Between a Man and a Woman; The Killing That Ended Dueling in America; The Longest Fight; Birth of Baseball's Greatest Song; Winning Ring Championships Was His Business; Death of a Team; The Horse that Swam to Victory; The Unsung Reporter; The Horse that Built a Town; Return of the Hero; Father and Son for One Title; He Almost Won a Million in a Day; The Horse that Died Like a Man; The Great Gotch; A Wrestler with His Gold; The Man Who Walked Across Niagara Falls; First Man to Swim the English Channel; A Man Alone Against the Sea; Le Grande Suzanne; Big Bill; The Jones Boy - Bobby; and many, many more..