(3) 4-6 Playing Pro Sports series. Each basic volume includes a brief history of the sport, rules, skills needed for success, and vignettes of outstanding athletes and memorable games. Sports fans will appreciate the clear but abbreviated information about their favorite teams and personalities. Numerous photographs, sidebars, inserts, and flashy graphics accompany the readable texts. Training tips and equipment diagrams are appended. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Playing Pro Sports titles: Playing Pro Football, Playing Pro Basketball, Playing Pro Hockey, and Playing Pro Baseball.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(3) 4-6 SportsZone: Sports' Biggest Moments series. These books offer a potpourri of memorable, unexpected, or groundbreaking moments in college, professional, and Olympic sports where even stars make mistakes and where sometimes little-known players become overnight heroes because of clutch performances. Compelling archival photos and well-placed sidebars supplement the dramatic action narratives that diehard young sports fans will devour. Reading list. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these SportsZone: Sports' Biggest Moments titles: Biggest Chokes in Sports, Biggest Blunders in Sports, Greatest Comebacks in Sports, and Biggest Upsets in Sports.

Reviewer: Jack Forman