Provides a thorough introduction to the history of games and sports, from the Aztec god of board games to medieval European jousting and Japanese sumo wrestling.

America's black boxing champion. Hitler's favorite athlete. And a world at war. Joe Louis was born on an Alabama cotton patch and raised in a Detroit ghetto. Max Schmeling grew up in poverty in Hamburg, Germany. For both boys, boxing was a way out and a way up. Little did they know someday they would face each other in a pair of battles that would capture the imagination of the world. In America, Joe was a symbol of hope to a nation of blacks yearning...

"Discover 25 women who challenged the stereotypes of what it means to play like a girl. These women worked to even the playing field and steppped up to score points for women all around the world"--

�Sab�ias que en una edici�on de los Juegos Ol�impicos se disput�o una prueba de nataci�on bajo el agua? �O que Leo Messi ha ganado 32 t�itulos (todos, menos la Copa del Mundo) y que Michael Phelps es el atleta m�as condecorado de todos los tiempos? �Y que Nadia Com�aneci obtuvo el primer diez de la gimnasia art�istica? En este libro encontrar�as curiosidades sobre los deportes que hoy son m�as populares, sobre sus or�igenes,...