Basketball category: 1106 books
by Doug Merlino
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
The history of basketball contains all the drama inherent in America’s long struggle with racial intolerance and quest for equality. In ten focused chapters that highlight characters both famous (Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird) and more obscure (John McLendon, Earl Lloyd,...
by Howard Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
**From Magic Johnson to Michael Jordan to LeBron James to Steph Curry, ESPN's Howard Bryant presents the best from the hardwood--a collection of NBA champions and superstars for young sports fans! **
Fast-paced, adrenaline-filled, and brimming with out-of-this-world athleticism, basketball...
by Claude Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Formed in 1904, the Alpha Physical Culture Club of Harlem was America’s first African American athletic club. Conrad Norman, its Jamaican-born founder, hoped to address rampant lung disease among blacks living in New York City’s overcrowded tenements by providing proper exercise facilities they...
by Pat Summitt
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
"It wasn't a team. It was a tent revival."
So says Pat Summitt, the legendary coach whose Tennessee Lady Vols entered the 1997-98 season aiming for an almost unprecedented "three-peat" of NCAA championships. Raise the Roof takes you right inside the locker room of her amazing...
Coaching From the Heart
Winning Ways Basketball, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Coach Steve Biddison has a history of turning basketball programs around. Four times in his career he has taken over teams who had losing records and turned them into a playoff team. Coaching From the HEART is a detailed account how he works to change the mindset of players who are used to losing...
by Dwyane Wade
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
A long-awaited photographic memoir from basketball superstar Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat, beautifully designed with more than 100 all new photos from Wade’s life on and off the court
For more than 15 years, Dwyane Wade has dazzled basketball fans with his on-court artistry and has built...
Tall Tales and Short Shorts
Dr. J, Pistol Pete, and the Birth of the Modern NBA
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
In basketball, just as in American culture, the 1970s were imperfect. But it was a vitally important time in the development of the nation and of the National Basketball Association. During this decade Americans suffered through the war in Vietnam and Nixon’s Watergate cover-up (not to mention disco...
Golden Days
West's Lakers, Steph's Warriors, and the California Dreamers Who Reinvented Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
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.
With an update on Jerry West’s new...
Cinderella
Inside the Rise of Mid-Major College Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
The NCAA tournament has always been an enormous spotlight for the underdog. Bracket-clenching fans root for teams from smaller schools to upset the elite squads and score an unexpected win on their tournament sheet...if they picked them, that is. And normally that's all the fans expect-one or two...
Sweetwater
A Biography of Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey decided to break the “color line” and integrate major league baseball in the 1940s, he spent years doing exhaustive background research and interviewing players. This role could not just go to an extraordinary athlete, but one of immense character...
by Floyd "Pete" Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Jameer is an inspiring biography of Jameer Nelson, who excelled in sports from an early age and decided to focus on basketball in high school and later completed his college career playing the sport. He is respected and admired throughout the nation for completing college before starting in the NBA,...
Unrivaled
UConn, Tennessee, and the Twelve Years that Transcended Women's Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
For twelve years the women’s basketball rivalry between UConn and Tennessee was the most iconic matchup in women’s sports. Even now, twenty years since the annual series started, the competition between these two storied programs still provokes heated argument and bitter resentment.
Led...
From Behind the Bench
Inside the Basketball Scandal That Rocked St. Bonaventure
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
On a March afternoon in Cleveland, St. Bonaventure battled powerful Kentucky for 40 minutes and two overtimes in the first round of the 2000 NCAA Tournament. Though the Bonnies would lose that day, the moments that accompanied that game provided St. Bonaventure's proud alumni a vast sense of pride....
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Top Dunkers in Basketball of All Time, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating...