All-Star Goofball Trivia: Weird and Wild Sports Trivia

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Why would a soccer star wear his underwear inside-out on game day? For good luck, of course. And he's right at home in All-Star Goofball Trivia, a collection of the strange facts and silly stories from the world of sports.

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ISBN-13:	9781623707798
Publisher:	Capstone Press
Publication date:	02/01/2017
Series:	Sports Illustrated Kids
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	34 MB
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Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

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Matt Chandler is a newspaper editor and freelance journalist from New York. Matt grew up in a family of hunters and developed his love of the outdoors early in life as a Boy Scout. Matt has been writing professionally since 1996. The New York Press Association named him an award-winning writer in 2007 and 2010.

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Professional sports provide entertainment to hundreds of millions of people across the globe, sometimes offering joyous victories and producing painful defeats that dog the memories of countless fans for years. Professional sports also produce oddities that often go unnoticed by even the most observant fans. Things such as player idiosyncrasies, superstitions, and rituals may be broadly known or closely kept secrets. For example, the fact that Michael Jordan’s wearing his collegiate shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform was not really known for years. Likewise, the Australian national soccer team’s hiring a witch doctor to help give them good fortune at the 1970 World Cup tournament may well be seen as an odd move. Interestingly enough, the Australians began that tournament with a series of upset victories, only to see their fortunes wane after they fired the shaman over a salary dispute. These types of sports oddities make up this fun-filled book, cataloging unusual sports stories and traditions in baseball, basketball, hockey, football and soccer. Readers will learn about strange actions and unusual patterns of behavior undertaken over the years by players and coaches in many leagues, nations, and cultures in this “Sports Illustrated Kids” series title. Readers who are interested in sports will thoroughly enjoy learning about the “weird and wild” behaviors of some athletes. Reviewer: Greg M. Romaneck; Ages 9 to 12.

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