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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"This inimitable collective returns with a bigger scope, deeper research, and renewed passion as [FreeDarko] takes on the whole of pro basketball history. Here we'll see the full evolution of the league: from the Celtics of Red Auerbach (compared by FreeDarko to the filmmaker John Cassavetes) clear through to the years of Frazier, Jordan, Iverson, and LeBron and Kobe. Of course, it's more than simply a history. In these pages we'll also see a taxonomy...
2) The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an epic college basketball rivalry
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Legends Club is a sports book that captures an era in American sport and culture, documenting the inside view of a decade of absolutely incredible competition. Feinstein pulls back the curtain on the recruiting wars, the intensely personal competition that wasn't always friendly, the enormous pressure and national stakes, and the battle for the very soul of college basketball allegiance in a hot-bed area. Getting to the roots of the NCAA goliath...
4) Blue blood II: Duke-Carolina: the latest on the never-ending and greatest rivalry in college hoops
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the recent history of the basketball rivalry between the Duke Blue Devils and the University of North Carolina Tar Heels, discussing recruiting philosophies, playing styles, game encounters, coaching milestones, and off-the-court drama.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"By 1977 the University of Evansville's Purple Aces basketball team had won five small-college national championships. With a charismatic young coach and a freshman phenom, this small Indiana city hoped to see its team shine in the national spotlight. Then, on a foggy night, after just four games, the plane carrying the team and its coach crashed after takeoff, killing everyone on board. The tragedy seemed insurmountable, a devastating blow to the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, in a working-class corner of the Bronx, where a driven coach inspires his teams to win games and championship--and learn Russian history and graduate and go on to college"--From publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
The "untold story of Perry Wallace, a brilliant student and talented athlete who became the first African-American basketball player in the SEC at Vanderbilt University during the tumultuous late 1960s. The [book] places Wallace's struggles and ultimate success into the larger contexts of civil rights and race relations in the South"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
New York's City College was a tuition-free, merit-based college in Harlem known far more for its intellectual achievements and political radicalism than its athletic prowess. In 1949-1950 every single member of the City College Beavers was either Jewish or African American. Under the guidance of the legendary former player Nat Holman, this unheralded group of city kids would stun the basketball world by becoming the only team in history to win the...
Author
Publisher
Midway, An Agate Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The unlikely story of a Chicago high school basketball team that became one of their state's first-ever girls' basketball champions after the passage of Title IX, which banned gender discrimination in school athletics.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Today the salary cap is an NBA institution, something fans take for granted as part of the fabric of the league or an obstacle to their favorite team’s chances to win a championship. In the early 1980s, however, a salary cap was not only novel but nonexistent. The Cap tells the fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of the deal between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association that created the salary cap in 1983, the first in all of...
17) Golden days: West's Lakers, Steph's Warriors, and the California dreamers who reinvented basketball
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Dream Team tells the interconnected stories of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors and the early-1970s Los Angeles Lakers, two extraordinary teams playing in extraordinary times and linked by one extraordinary man: Jerry West. During their 1971-72 championship season, the L.A. Lakers won thirty-three games in a row, a streak that still stands as the longest and greatest in the history of American professional sports....
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