| Description |
xxiii, 462 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Library of America |
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Lbrary of America.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Kareem Adbul-Jabbar -- Introduction: February reconsidered / Alexander Wolff -- from Basketball: Its origins and development / James Naismith -- A case of malnutrition / Red Smith -- Indiana's town of champions / Edith Roberts -- Farewell to Cousy / Herbert Warren Wind -- from A sense of where you are / John McPhee -- 47 years a shot-freak / Roy Blount, Jr. -- from The city game / Pete Axthelm -- A reflection of society / George Kiseda -- The coach who couldn't shoot straight / Jimmy Breslin -- from Caught in the pivot / Tom Meschery -- from Heaven is a playground / Rick Telander -- from The joy of sports / Michael Novak -- from The game they played / Stanley Cohen -- Requiem for a Globetrotter / Peter Goldman -- Girls win, boys lose / Douglas Bauer -- from Second wind / Bill Russell and Taylor Branch -- from The breaks of the game / David Halberstam -- The rabbit hunter / Frank Deford -- The autumn of the age of Jabbar / David Bradley -- Basketball: the purest sport of bodies / Donald Hall -- The passion of Doctor J / Mark Jacobson -- Memories / Curry Kirkpatrick -- from Forty-eight minutes / Bob Ryan and Terry Pluto -- Pete Maravich / Dave Kindred -- The coach and his champion / Alexander Wolff -- The brother from another planet / Charles P. Pierce -- from The last shot / Darcy Frey -- Eyes of the storm / Gary Smith -- Last call? / Rick Reilly -- It's all in the game / Melissa King -- from A season on the reservation / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- from Hoop roots / John Edgar Wideman -- from My losing season -- Pat Conroy -- I believe in b-ball / Steve Rushin -- Playing for Jud / James McKean -- from The Macrophenomenal pro basketball almanac / Freedarko -- The no-stats all-star / Michael Lewis -- from Play their hearts out / George Dohrmann -- The fiberglass backboard / Bryan Curtis -- from Dream team / Jack McCallum -- Hist last game / Brian Doyle -- The king: LeBron James, sportsman of the year 2012 / Lee Jenkins -- The life and death of fandom / Zach Lowe -- Days of wine and Curry / Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- Life is not a playground / David Shields. |
| Subject |
Basketball.
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Sports journalism.
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Sports journalism. (OCoLC)fst01130698
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Basketball. (OCoLC)fst00828203
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| Added Author |
Wolff, Alexander, 1957- editor.
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Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 1947- writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
1598535560 (hardback) |
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9781598535563 (hardback) |
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