Foreword |
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Introduction |
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1 What If Muhammad Ali Had Gotten His Draft Deferment? |
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2 What If Football Had Been Deemed Too Boring in 1899? |
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22 | (6) |
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3 What If the United States Had Boycotted Hitler's Olympics? |
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28 | (10) |
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4 What If the 2017 Golden State Warriors Traveled Through Time to Play the Greatest Teams in NBA History? |
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38 | (11) |
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5 What If Horse Racing Was Still the Most Popular Sport in America? |
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49 | (8) |
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6 What If I Hadn't Written That Fan Letter to Dan Majerle in April 1993? |
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57 | (9) |
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7 What If Wayne Gretzky Hadn't Been an Oiler? |
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66 | (8) |
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8 What If Major League Baseball Had Started Testing for Steroids in 1991? |
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74 | (13) |
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9 What If Bucky Dent Hadn't Homered over the Green Monster in 1978? |
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87 | (9) |
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10 What If Jerry Tarkanian Had Beaten the NCAA and Liberated College Basketball? |
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96 | (9) |
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11 What If Football Were Reinvented Today? |
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105 | (8) |
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12 What If There Had Always Been Sports PR Flacks? |
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113 | (5) |
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13 What If... Title IX Never Was? |
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118 | (7) |
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14 What If Tom Brady Hadn't Stepped In/Taken Over for an Injured Drew Bledsoe? |
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125 | (11) |
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15 What If the 1999 U.S. Women's National Soccer Team Had Lost the Women's World Cup? |
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136 | (7) |
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16 What If the Olympics Had Never Dropped Tug-of-War? |
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143 | (9) |
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17 What If Billie Jean King Had Lost to Bobby Riggs? |
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152 | (8) |
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18 What If Mike Tyson Had Beaten Buster Douglas? |
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160 | (5) |
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19 What If? A Tour Through NBA Injury History |
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165 | (16) |
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With Introductory Notes on the Topic "What if Bernard King hadn't been injured?" |
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20 What If the Dodgers Had Left Brooklyn? |
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181 | (5) |
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21 What If a Blimp Full of Money Had Exploded over World Track Headquarters in 1952? |
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186 | (11) |
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22 What If Baseball Teams Only Played Once a Week? |
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197 | (9) |
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23 What If Bobby Fischer Had Received Proper Psychiatric Help? |
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206 | (10) |
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24 What If Basketball Rims Were Smaller Than Basketballs? |
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216 | (8) |
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25 What If the AFL-NFL Merger Had Been Complicated by the Jets' Loss in Super Bowl III? |
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224 | (8) |
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26 What If the National League Had the DH? |
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232 | (7) |
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27 What If Nixon Had Been Good at Football? |
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239 | (7) |
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28 What If Bill Walton Had Healthy Knees? |
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246 | (6) |
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29 What If Roger Bannister Trained Today? |
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252 | (8) |
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30 What If Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton's Pass Hadn't Gone Awry? |
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260 | (19) |
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31 What If Game 7 of the 2016 World Series Had Turned Into Every Sports Movie Ever Made? |
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Acknowledgments |
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285 | (2) |
Notes |
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287 | (4) |
Index |
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291 | (10) |
About the Contributors |
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