Heaven Is a Playground
In 1974, Rick Telander intended to spend a few days doing a  magazine piece on the court wizards of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant area. He ended up staying the entire summer, become part of the players' lives and eventually the coach of a loose aggregation known as the Subway Stars.Telander lets these kids speak for themselves, revealing their grand dreams and ambitions, but never flinches from showing us how far their dreams are from reality.  The precursor toBen Joravsky'sHoop Dreams.