The New York Times the Sports of the Times: A Day-By-Day Selection of the Most Important, Thrilling, and Inspired Events of the

A year's worth of sports highlights draws from the New York Times archives to recreate some of the most important events that took place on given calendar dates, including Joe Namath's fulfilled promise to deliver a Super Bowl victory, Joe Louis's boxing championship win against Max Schmeling, and Mary Lou Retton's win of the first American gold medal for gymnastics. 50,000 first printing.