An edition of Basketball
(1997)
Basketball
great writing about America's game
by Wolff, Alexander and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Basketball: great writing about America's game
2018, Library of America
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1598535560 9781598535563
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Table of 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.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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