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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball
101 Great Hoop Stories from Players, Coaches, and Fans
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Fans will be inspired, surprised, and even amused, by inside stories from well-known coaches and players, fascinating looks behind the scenes, and anecdotes from the people who make it all possible – the fans.
Pat Williams has drawn on his basketball industry connections to compile great...
Return of the Gold: The Journey of Jerry Colangelo and the Redeem Team
The Journey of Jerry Colangelo and the Redeem Team
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Six years after Michael Jordan won his last NBA championship, American basketball hit rock bottom. The perception of NBA players reached an all-time low. Team USA lost three times, disgracing the nation at the 2004 Olympics. With great historical sweep, bringing in the voices of all-time greats...
Tales from the Missouri Tigers
A Collection of the Greatest Tiger Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
College sports fans around the nation know it as the University of Missouri, the home of the Tigers. But for the legions of fans from St. Louis to Columbia, it’s simply Mizzou, and there is no better place to be on a crisp fall afternoon than Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium. Don Faurot himself,...
Basketball Suggestions
Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
The contents of this book are based upon personal experiences, observations, comments, thoughts, and readings about basketball and how it might be played better. Each section contains suggestions you may consider to improve your skills and performances and to make the game more enjoyable. The information...
For the Love of Basketball
From A-Z
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Expressing the passion felt for basketball using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the sport explores the hardwood heroes in a fresh and fun way. Readers will enjoy fun facts about NBA superstars past and present, including LeBron, Kobe, Jordan, and Magic, seemingly doing the impossible on the court.
by F. Kuhn, RN
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
This is a story about a young basketball player that has doubts about winning it all.Go on a journey to find out if he is able to win it all.
Jerry West
The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
When in 1969 the NBA sought an emblem for the league, one man was chosen above all as the icon of his sport: Jerry West. Silhouetted in white against a red-and-blue backdrop, West’s signature gait and left-handed dribble are still the NBA logo, seen on merchandise around the world.
In this...
Let Me Tell You a Story
A Lifetime in the Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
America's favorite sportswriter teams up with Red Auerbach, the most successful and admired coach in basketball history, to tell the best stories of a legendary life.Living legend Arnold "Red" Auerbach led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships, eight of them consecutive, during his...
Heads of State
Pennsylvania's Greatest High School Basketball Players of the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
The history of basketball spans more than a century, from its humble origin as a simple diversion during the harsh winters in America to today's perennial, rim-rattling show of international renown. Throughout the last 60 years, Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of the sports evolution, supplying...
Rockin' Steady
A Guide to Basketball & Cool
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
For millions of basketball fans in the 1970s, Walt “Clyde” Frazier defined the word cool. An iconic piece of basketball history and sports journalism, this meticulously documented account tells the story of one of the greatest point guards in NBA history and how he led the Knicks to their only...
You Let Some Girl Beat You?
The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
"Annie was one of the best players ever. I didn't say male or female; I said ever."—Bill Russell, former Boston Celtics player
Ann Meyers Drysdale is one of the greatest stars in the history of basketball. But her rise wasn't without controversy. Her 1979 NBA bid to play with the...
Wheelchair Warrior
Gangs, Disability, and Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was “both the worst and best thing that happened” to him. The incident, he believes, surely spared the then sixteen year-old African American from prison and/or an early death. It transformed him in other ways, too. He attended...
Asphalt Gods
An Oral History of the Rucker Tournament
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2003
The real basketball deal–the inside story of Harlem’s legendary tournament and the pros and playground legends who have made it world famous.
Earl “The Goat” Manigault. Herman “Helicopter” Knowings. Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond. Richard “Pee Wee” Kirkland. These and dozens...
Hoop Hysteria
The College Basketball Trivia Quiz Book
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
A Must-Have for Basketball Fans! In this book you will learn where Lurch from television''s Adams Family played college basketball, what a North Carolina Tar Heel is, and what record Frank Selvy set that may never be broken by a Division I player.