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Chuck Taylor, All Star
Indiana University Press 2006; US$ 17.55His is the name on the label of the legendary Converse All-Star basketball shoe. Though the shoe has been worn by hundreds of millions, few, if any, know a thing about the man behind the name. Some even believe that there is no such person, that he is a marketer's fabrication like Betty Crocker. But... more...
The Bullets, the Wizards, and Washington, DC, Basketball
Scarecrow Press 2012; US$ 44.99This book chronicles the Washington, DC area?s history of professional basketball, from the sport?s origins up through the present day. It captures the high and low times of the Bullets, the Wizards, and all the other basketball teams in Washington?s history. The authors meticulously researched newspaper and magazine articles, as well as archival... more...
Conversations with Coach Wooden
Santa Monica Press 2013; US$ 19.99From the legendary basketball coach?s life lessons and ?pyramid of success? to musings on his favorite sport, this engaging account chronicles the friendship between a pair of former University of California?Los Angeles (UCLA) head coaches, basketball coach John Wooden and baseball coach Gary Adams. For nearly a decade the two celebrated coaches shared... more...
The Fab Five
Grand Central Publishing 2009; US$ 12.99Recounts the remarkable story of University of Michigan basketball players Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson, and chronicles their success in the NCAA tournaments of 1992 and 1993. more...
Longshot
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 20.99Lance Allred was probably the last person you'd expect to make it in professional sports. Not only did he grow up on a polygamist commune in Montana, he struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder. If those hurdles to the NBA don't seem large enough, Lance is also deaf. Self-deprecating, witty, and wholly original, Longshot is the unlikely story... more...
Longshot
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableLance Allred was probably the last person you'd expect to make it in professional sports. Not only did he grow up on a polygamist commune in Montana, he struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder. If those hurdles to the NBA don't seem large enough, Lance is also deaf. Self-deprecating, witty, and wholly original, Longshot is the unlikely story... more...
Stan Anderson
SportsBooks 2011; US$ 21.13Born in the Durham mining village of Horden, Stan Anderson didn't go far from home in a playing career that spanned more than 500 games. He was a midfield player with Sunderland, Newcastle United and Middlesbrough, the north east's big three. And he was the only player to captain them all. Good enough to win two England caps and be a member of the... more...
On Penalties
Random House 2011; US$ 6.68The penalty shoot-out is the greatest set piece of sporting drama ever conceived. Cruel, arbitrary, tortuous and unfair, it has also presented the England football team with a new and infinitely more punishing manner in which to lose. Three times in the past decade the nation has sat on the edge of its collective sofa and watched the seemingly inevitable... more...
Crashing the Borders
Free Press 2005; US$ 16.95Unflinching, timely, and authoritative, Crashing the Borders is the beginning of a much-needed conversation about sport and American culture. For those who care about both, this book will be the must-read work of the season. The game of basketball has gone global and is now the world?s fastest-growing sport. Talented players from Europe, Asia,... more...
When the Garden Was Eden
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 21.99In the tradition of The Boys of Summer and The Bronx Is Burning , New York Times sports columnist Harvey Araton delivers a fascinating look at the 1970s New York Knicks?part autobiography, part sports history, part epic, set against the tumultuous era when Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, and Bill Bradley reigned supreme in the world of basketball.... more...









