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Author Baker, Vin, author.

Title God and Starbucks : an NBA superstar's journey through addiction and recovery / Vin Baker, with Joe Layden.

Publication Info. New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B BAKER, VIN    Check Shelf
Edition First Amistad paperback edition.
Description xiv, 282 pages ; 20 cm
Contents Prologue -- Growing up -- Big fish, little pond -- The rookie -- "How bad can it be?" -- Playing high -- Scared straight (almost) -- A new home in Seattle -- Ego gets in the way -- A functional alcoholic -- A fractured life -- Back to New England -- Celtics intervention -- A career unravels -- Losing everything -- The prodigal son -- Abyssinian Baptist Church -- Starbucks and second chances -- Epilogue.
Summary "Vin Baker, an NBA all-star, Olympic gold medalist, and clean-cut preacher's son, harbored a dark secret: a dependence on drugs and alcohol that began shortly after he turned pro. Evenutally becoming a full-blown yet functional alcholic, Baker convinced himself that he played better undert the influence--until his addiction cost him his basketball career, his fortune, and his health. But Baker's story isn't a tragic fall from grace. It is an enthralling testimony of slavation. For Baker, hitting rock bottom was a difficult yet transformative experience that led him to renew his relationship with God and to embrace life. Howard Schultz of Starbucks and Calvin Butts of Abyssinian Baptist Church offered Baker a helping hand, leading him to find more security and happiness in his ordinary working life than he did in all his years in the glamorous world of professional basketball. God and Starbucks is a powerful memoir about reaching the top and beginning again from the bottom--an inspiring personal tale of humility and grace that reminds us of what is truly important."-- Page 4 of cover
Subject Baker, Vin.
Basketball players -- United States -- Biography.
Addicts -- Rehabilitation.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
Baker, Vin. (OCoLC)fst01987353
Addicts -- Rehabilitation. (OCoLC)fst00796516
Basketball players. (OCoLC)fst00828280
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiography. (DNLM)D020493
Biography. (DNLM)D019215
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Added Author Layden, Joe, author.
Added Title God & Starbucks
ISBN 9780062496829 (paperback)
0062496824 (paperback)
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