James Naismith

The Man Who Invented Basketball

Rob Rains (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2011
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4399-0134-2 (ISBN)

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Rains and Carpenter chronicle how James Naismith developed the original rules of basketball, coached the game at the University of Kansas--establishing college basketball in the process--and was honored for his work at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin.

Rob Rains is a former National League beat writer for USA Today's Baseball Weekly and for three years covered the St. Louis Cardinals for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He is the author or co-author of autobiographies or biographies of Tony La Russa, Ozzie Smith, Mark McGwire, Jack Buck, Red Schoendienst and many other sports celebrities. Hellen Carpenter is the granddaughter of James Naismith. For more than 40 years she had in her possession more than 200 documents from Naismith's files which were instrumental in crafting this biography.

Foreword by Roy Williams
Introduction by Hellen Naismith Dodd Carpenter
1. Growing Up
2. The College Years
3. The Springfi eld Challenge—and a New Game
4. The Game Is Born
5. A New Frontier
6. KU Bound
7. The Student Arrives
8. A Revolution Calls
9. A Raging War
10. Happy Homecoming
11. Becoming a Mentor
12. Olympic Pride
13. The Changing Game
14. Death of a Legend
15. A Great Game
16. The Man, More Than Basketball
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.6.2011
Verlagsort	Philadelphia PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	254 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
ISBN-10	1-4399-0134-1 / 1439901341
ISBN-13	978-1-4399-0134-2 / 9781439901342
Zustand	Neuware