Basketball
Subtitle: great writing about America's game
By: Alexander Wolff, editor ; with a foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Series: Library of America; Library of America
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9781598535563
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Sports journalism; Basketball
Description: "From the street game to March Madness to Jordan and LeBron, the greatest writing about the grit, grace, and glory of basketball"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- Kareem Adbul-Jabbar -- Introduction:; title: February reconsidered  -- Alexander Wolff; title: from Basketball: Its origins and development  -- James Naismith; title: A case of malnutrition  -- Red Smith; title: Indiana's town of champions  -- Edith Roberts; title: Farewell to Cousy  -- Herbert Warren Wind; title: from A sense of where you are  -- John McPhee; title: 47 years a shot-freak  -- Roy Blount, Jr.; title: from The city game  -- Pete Axthelm; title: A reflection of society  -- George Kiseda; title: The coach who couldn't shoot straight  -- Jimmy Breslin; title: from Caught in the pivot  -- Tom Meschery; title: from Heaven is a playground  -- Rick Telander; title: from The joy of sports  -- Michael Novak; title: from The game they played  -- Stanley Cohen; title: Requiem for a Globetrotter  -- Peter Goldman; title: Girls win, boys lose  -- Douglas Bauer; title: from Second wind  -- Bill Russell and Taylor Branch; title: from The breaks of the game  -- David Halberstam; title: The rabbit hunter  -- Frank Deford; title: The autumn of the age of Jabbar  -- David Bradley; title: Basketball: the purest sport of bodies  -- Donald Hall; title: The passion of Doctor J  -- Mark Jacobson; title: Memories  -- Curry Kirkpatrick; title: from Forty-eight minutes  -- Bob Ryan and Terry Pluto; title: Pete Maravich  -- Dave Kindred; title: The coach and his champion  -- Alexander Wolff; title: The brother from another planet  -- Charles P. Pierce; title: from The last shot  -- Darcy Frey; title: Eyes of the storm  -- Gary Smith; title: Last call?  -- Rick Reilly; title: It's all in the game  -- Melissa King; title: from A season on the reservation  -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; title: from Hoop roots  -- John Edgar Wideman; title: from My losing season --; title: Pat Conroy --; title: I believe in b-ball  -- Steve Rushin; title: Playing for Jud  -- James McKean; title: from The Macrophenomenal pro basketball almanac  -- Freedarko; title: The no-stats all-star  -- Michael Lewis; title: from Play their hearts out  -- George Dohrmann; title: The fiberglass backboard  -- Bryan Curtis; title: from Dream team  -- Jack McCallum; title: Hist last game  -- Brian Doyle; title: The king: LeBron James, sportsman of the year 2012  -- Lee Jenkins; title: The life and death of fandom  -- Zach Lowe; title: Days of wine and Curry  -- Rowan Ricardo Phillips; title: Life is not a playground -- David Shields.