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Traces the personal life and career of the Houston Comets' star forward.

"A stolen bicycle led twelve-year-old Cassius Clay to his first boxing teacher. He spent endless hours training, determined that he would one day become the heavyweight champion of the world. In 1964 he beat Sonny Liston to make his prediction come true. When Ali refused to fight in the Vietnam War, his title was stripped from him, and he was banned from boxing. But just a few years later, he made an incredible comeback. Find out how alie became...

When Wilma Rudolph was a child, she couldn't walk, yet she overcame the odds to win three gold medals as an Olympic Sprinter in 1960, inspiring wonder. Young readers will delight in reading about Rudolph and athletes like her in Real Heroes of Sport: Heroic Comebacks.

A New York Yankees hero since his rookie year in 1936, Jo DiMaggio became a national hero by completing the longest hitting streak in the history of Major League Baseball with hits in fifty-six consecutive games in 1941. Arguably the best centerfielder in baseball history, DiMaggio won the World Series nine times-including his first four seasons with the team. Although plagued with a series of injuries that eventually forced him to retire, DiMaggio...

Traces the personal life and career of the world-champion figure skater.

Discusses the life and career of Jesse Owens, the African American track star who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.