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Strange But True Football Stories
1971
First Published
3.87
Average Rating
184
Number of Pages
Recounts twenty-three humorous, frustrating, disappointing, and exciting moments in the past half-century of football.
Avg Rating
3.87
Number of Ratings
38
5 STARS
24%
4 STARS
45%
3 STARS
26%
2 STARS
5%
1 STARS
0%
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Author

Zander Hollander
Zander Hollander
Author · 2 books

Zander Hollander was an American sportswriter, journalist, editor and archivist. Many years before the internet and unfinished cable television system emerged, Hollander served as a prolific supplier of encyclopedias on every major sport. At this point, he edited, wrote or packaged around 300 books over a professional career that spanned 45 years. From 1971 to 1997, Hollander edited sports yearbooks, brick-sized tomes known as Complete Handbooks, which in the pre-Internet era were almost holy objects to a certain type of sports-crazed youngster. Here, in one glorious place, was information—statistics, team rosters, records, schedules, predictions for the coming season and more—freed from the restrictions of newspaper column inches and far beyond what a still embryonic cable television system was providing.

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