Basketball: great writing about America's game
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[New York, NY]
The Library of America
[2018]
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| Beschreibung: | A special publication of the Library of America |
| Beschreibung: | xxiii, 462 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781598535563 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar............................xi
Introduction: February Reconsidered
by Alexander Wolff .....................................xv
JAMES NAISMITH
from Basketball: Its Origin and Development..............1
RED SMITH
A Case of Malnutrition..................................11
EDITH ROBERTS
Indiana s Town of Champions.............................14
HERBERT WARREN WIND
Farewell to Cousy.......................................20
JOHN McPHEE
from A Sense of Where You Are..........................40
ROY BLOUNT, JR.
47 Years A Shot-Freak...................................43
PETE AXTHELM
from The City Game......................................53
GEORGE KISEDA
A Reflection of Society.................................64
JIMMY BRESLIN
The Coach Who Couldn t Shoot Straight...................68
TOM MESCHERY
from Caught in the Pivot................................76
RICK TELANDER
from Heaven Is a Playground.............................87
MICHAEL NOVAK
from The Joy of Sports..................................95
vii
viii CONTENTS
STANLEY COHEN
from The Game They Played..........................97
PETER GOLDMAN
Requiem for a Globetrotter.........................104
DOUGLAS BAUER
Girls Win, Boys Lose...............................116
BILL RUSSELL AND TAYLOR BRANCH
from Second Wind....................................126
DAVID HALBERSTAM
from The Breaks of the Game.........................129
FRANK DEFORD
The Rabbit Hunter...................................150
DAVID BRADLEY
The Autumn of the Age of Jabbar.....................172
DONALD HALL
Basketball: The Purest Sport of Bodies..............187
MARK JACOBSON
The Passion of Doctor J.............................192
CURRY KIRKPATRICK
Memories...........................................210
BOB RYAN AND TERRY PLUTO
from Forty-Eight Minutes...........................227
DAVE KINDRED
Pete Maravich......................................230
ALEXANDER WOLFF
The Coach and His Champion....................... 233
CHARLES P. PIERCE
The Brother from Another Planet....................248
DARCY FREY
from The Last Shot
. 256
CONTENTS ix
GARY SMITH
Eyes of the Storm...................................264
RICK REILLY
Last Call?..........................................283
MELISSA KING
It s All in the Game................................293
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR
from A Season on the Reservation....................307
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN
from Hoop Roots.....................................313
PAT CONROY
from My Losing Season . ............................320
STEVE RUSHIN
I Believe in B-Ball.................................332
JAMES McKEAN
Playing for Jud.....................................335
FREEDARKO
from The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac.....349
MICHAEL LEWIS
The No-Stats All-Star...............................353
GEORGE DOHRMANN
from Play Their Hearts Out..........................374
BRYAN CURTIS
The Fiberglass Backboard............................389
JACK McCALLUM
from Dream Team.....................................393
BRIAN DOYLE
His Last Game.......................................410
LEE JENKINS
The King: LeBron James, Sportsman of the Year 2012
414
x CONTENTS
ZACH LOWE
The Life and Death of Fandom..........................427
ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS
Days of Wine and Curry.................................434
DAVID SHIELDS
Life Is Not a Playground...............................438
Sources and Acknowledgments..............................445
Index
449
ade in America, basketball has become
a national obsession whose rise as a
popular entertainment has coincided with the
ascendancy of new ways of writing about
sports. In this landmark anthology, the biggest
and best collection of basketball writing ever
assembled, an all-star roster of sportswriters,
essayists, and players cover the game in all
its myriad aspects: the storied teams, like the
Celtics, Knicks, and Tennessee Lady Vols; the
iconic superstars, like Kareem, Jordan, LeBron,
and Steph Curry; the frenzy of March Mad-
ness and the INIBA finals; and the sheer poetry,
grace, and spectacle of the sport.
The book opens with James bJaismith s account
of inventing the game in 1891, an unlikely
origin story of a global phenomenon. It moves
on to Red Smith s momentary dalliance with
a sport he claims not to have liked and Edith
Roberts s account of the legendary Indiana
championship immortalized in the film
Hoos/ers before it fast breaks to the 1960$,
when basketball writing came into its own.
John AAcPhee on Bill Bradley, Jimmy Breslin
on Al McGuire, David Halberstam on the Port-
land Trail Blazers: these masters of long-form
journalism sized up players, coaches, and teams
in prose that is always trenchant. Meanwhile
reporters like Pete Axthelm and Rick Telander
began exploring the glories and tragedies of
the city game, the electrifying world of play-
ground ball and its players complex stories.
Expertly edited and introduced by longtime
Sports HlusfrctfocJ writer Alexander Wolff, the
pieces gathered here range from personal
reflections about the sport (John Edgar Wide-
man, Brian Doyle, David Shields) to indelible
profiles (Frank Deford on Bob Knight, Gary
Smith on Pat Summitt) to pieces influenced by
the revolution in basketball commentary on
the internet {the FreeDarko Collective, Zach
Lowe). Others approach the sport as a way to
think about America more broadly, particularly
about race, illuminating AAichael Novak s ob-
servation that a part of our deepest identity is
uttered in this game.
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