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Author Telander, Rick.

Title Heaven is a playground / Rick Telander.

Publication Info. New York : Sports Publishing, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (397 pages)
Summary Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush. He slept on the floor of a park regular's apartment, observing, questioning, traveling, playing with, and eventually coaching a ragtag group of local teenagers whose hopes of better lives were often fanatically attached to the transcendent game itself. Telander.
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Subject Basketball -- New York (State) -- New York.
African American basketball players -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Playgrounds -- New York (State) -- New York.
Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Basketball.
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
African American basketball players. (OCoLC)fst00799046
Basketball. (OCoLC)fst00828203
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Playgrounds. (OCoLC)fst01066996
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
New York (State) -- New York -- Bedford-Stuyvesant. (OCoLC)fst01319398
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
Other Form: Print version: Telander, Rick. Heaven Is a Playground. New York : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 2013 9781613213940
ISBN 9781613216163 (electronic bk.)
1613216165 (electronic bk.)
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