Champions of Ruin
General:
Name: Champions of Ruin
Format: pdf
Size: 9.87 MB
Book:
Title: The First Tip-Off
Author: Charley Rosen
Language: angielski
Year: 2008
Subjects: Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
ISBN: 9780071487856
Total pages: 188
Description:
"Charley Rosen has undertaken the challenge of documenting the latest and greatest history of the game professionally-and has done so to great success. . . . . When I finished the book it seemed as if I had gone through another season, injuries and all. . . . Rosen skillfully leads readers through the NBA’s first steps along its journey toward what it has become today."
–Phil Jackson, from the Foreword
"Rosen, a wonderful sportswriter . . . had forgotten more basketball history than the best fans will ever know."
Booklist, on No Blood, No Foul
Go back to a time when basketball players wore knee pads and itchy cotton jerseys. When even the team’s leaders were grateful for dry towels, hot showers, and $60 paychecks. When winning was all that mattered.
In this vividly rendered and meticulously researched book, endorsed with a Foreword by Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson, sportswriter Charley Rosen takes you on a rollicking tour of the NBA’s first season. Filled with rare archival photographs and exclusive interviews, The First Tip-Off brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters-including Chuck Connors, clown prince of the BAA, and Jumping Joe Fulks, ex-Marine turned basketball’s first superstar-as Rosen deftly unfolds the dramatic events of that formative season.
It’s enough to make you believe once again in the spirit of the sport.
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