Martha's Vineyard Basketball (eBook)

How a Resort League Defied Notions of Race and Class

Bijan C. Bayne (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
240 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-3897-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Year round on Martha's Vineyard Island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, residents and vacationers have played basketballalmost since the game was invented. The Oak Bluffs summer league on the Island was innovative, ethnically diverse, welcomed female players, and fostered thousands of friendships. President Obama, NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving, and Family Matters sitcom star Jaleel White have all played basketball on Martha's Vineyard, as did future college stars, authors, war heroes, and entrepreneurs. Their stories touch current events from World War I through the Civil Rights Movementand even include the filming of the blockbuster Jaws. Martha's Vineyard Basketball: How a Resort League Defied Notions of Race and Class follows the rich history of basketball on the Island and tells the stories of the players and coaches themselves. During the heyday of Martha's Vineyard basketball in the 1970s and ';80s, the courts provided a place for friendships that looked past social class and racea unique situation given that nearby cities such as Boston were sites of violent demonstrations against integration. Original interviews with those who were there not only reveal the racial dynamics on Martha's Vineyard, but also relate amusing anecdotes of encounters with celebrities that include Charles Lindbergh, James Cagney, Frank Sinatra, and future star James Taylor. Martha's Vineyard Basketball reveals little-known aspects of the Island, shares the realities and triumphs of residents and vacationers alike, and demonstrates the unifying power of basketball. New Englanders, basketball fans, and those interested in race and class relations will all find this book a noteworthy account of a singular place.

Autor

Bijan C. Bayne is an award-winning Washington-based freelance columnist and critic and a founding member of the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Herald, and SLAM, among others. Bayne is the author of Sky Kings: Black Pioneers of Professional Basketball, which was named to the Suggested Reading List of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsForeword by Wil HaygoodPreface: The Courts: A Summer Love AffairChapter 1 The Poorest County in MassachusettsChapter 2 A Love of the GameChapter 3 They Are Your Basic Schoolyard BallplayersChapter 4 “Those Kids Can Play!”Chapter 5 The Jaws YearsChapter 6 The Black Vacation HavenChapter 7 Friendships Before FacebookChapter 8 The Hog Call and “No Form Norm”Chapter 9 “That’s All There Was to Do in the Winter”Chapter 10 Coming of AgeChapter 11 Seasons of ChangeAfterword: A Look Forward and BackwardCommonly Used Terms: A Vineyard Basketball GlossaryReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 15 Illustrations including: - 15 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-3897-6 / 1442238976
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-3897-8 / 9781442238978