The Rule Book: The authoritative up-to-date illustrated guide to the regulations, history and object of all major sports

The Rule Book is a sportsman's bible--a work of reference about the regulations, equipment, playing surfaces, and scoring of every major competitive sport. With 1,000 drawings and some 150,000 words, it's a Hoyle's, a Webster's a Baedeker and a Gray's Anatomy of sports in one.

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