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Jessica Watson spent 210 days at sea and traveled more than 22,000 nautical miles in a 33-foot boat, unassisted and solo, in her nonstop trip around the world. When the sixteen-year-old returned to Australia, where she still lives, on May 15, 2010, she became the youngest person to ever accomplish this feat. And she left behind forever the young girl she once was, afraid of everything with no self-confidence.

Over 200 photographs and accompanying text describe the highlights of pro football's past quarter-century. Includes a year-by-year chronology and memorable quotations.

Presents a collection of more than five hundred facts, feats, and milestones by baseball players, fans, umpires, owners, and coaches.

Chronicles the April 19, 1981, minor league baseball game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings, which, at thirty-three innings, became the longest game in baseball history and came to symbolize the joys, sorrows, and collective pasts and futures of the players, coaches, and fans.

A photographic celebration of Mark McGwire's record-breaking baseball season, featuring a recap of each of his seventy home runs, and discussing his good-natured duel with Chicago's Sammy Sosa.

A compendium of more than 225 top ten lists about baseball, covering such topics as most career strikeouts, and highest percentage of Hall of Fame votes received.

Presents accounts of Olympic speed skating competition beginning in 1924.

Over 300 photographs and accompanying text describe the highlights of the Summer and Winter games.