Art Linkletter best describes this book, in his book Dedication: ''To all of the good sports who have let me pry into their private lives, hit them with pies, kid their mothers-in-law, third-degree them, douse them in tanks, tease them with prizes, chase them with alligators, auction off their clothes, fool them with gags, and send them on wild-goose chases ...''

''My thanks for helping me prove that in a world steeped in bitterness and suspicion ... Americans retain that most precious of all qualities: the ability to have a good laugh at themselves!''