Ten Moments that Shook the Sports World

By Isabel Denny

Want to know what really happened? Stan Isaacs knows. He was there! "The Shot Heard Round the World," in 1951. "The Fight of the Century," in 1971. The horror of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Secretariat's legendary win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes. Stan Isaacs saw them all live. Isaacs covered thousands of sports stories in his more than fifty years as a journalist. But ten moments stand out in his memory. Ten Moments That Shook the Sports Worldoffers Isaacs' eyewitness accounts of the events that changed sports history. This collection offers those old enough to remember these events a chance to relive them, and younger sports lovers will get to hear this history from someone who was there. Isaacs makes sports history live again.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Release date: Jul 17, 2008
• ISBN: 9781628730159

Reviews for Ten Moments that Shook the Sports World

[scoutj_3 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Probably better titled as "Ten Mostly New York-centric Moments that Shook the American Sports World" but enjoyable nonetheless. Isaacs was present for some of the most remarkable games and moments of the last 75 years of American sporting events as a New York-based reporter. The events, therefore, are mostly New York (the Knicks, Met, Jets and the Belmont Stakes all figgure into the narrative), but he includes some truly national as well as international events as well. Isaacs has an easy style and a storyteller's gift.