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Aaseng, Nathan.
Business builders in toys and games /
Nathan Aaseng.
Minneapolis :
Oliver Press,
2003.
160 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-150) and index.
Milton Bradley : the checkered game of Life -- Albert Spalding : Spalding Sports Worldwide -- Joshua Lionel Cowen : Lionel trains -- Ruth Handler : Mattel and the million dollar doll -- Ole Kirk Christiansen : Lego -- Hiroshi Yamauchi : Nintendo -- Gary Gygax : TSR Hobbies, Inc., and Dungeons & Dragons.
Provides a history of the toy and game industry and profiles seven people who have succeeded in that realm.
20070228.
Toy industry
Juvenile literature.
Toy industry.
Toy making
Juvenile literature.
Toy making.
Businesspeople
Biography
Juvenile literature.
Businesspeople.
Games.