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For the third year, ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports, joins forces with America's favorite sports reference source to create the most sophisticated, hip, and informative sports almanac ever published. Like its hugely successful predecessors, this new volume combines essays from great sportswriters and top ESPN personalities, easily accessed facts, in-depth statistics ESPN's "Inside the Numbers" team, hundreds of photographs, and thousands of charts and tables. It reviews the year's top ten highlights of each sport, reflects every notable change in the sports world over the past year, and gives a full recap of the World Series and major competitions for professional and amateur alike. With more than 950 fact-filled pages, this extraordinary fusion between two trusted sports resources is as truly entertaining as it is informative. It's the perfect gift for the sports fan who always knows the latest scores and can never have enough information.