Heaven Is a Playground (eBook)

4th Edition

Rick Telander (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
272 Seiten
Sports Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61321-616-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush. He slept on the floor of a park regulars apartment, observing, questioning, traveling, playing with, and eventually coaching a ragtag group of local teenagers whose hopes of better lives were often fanatically attached to the transcendent game itself. Telander introduces us to Fly Williams, a playground legend with incredible leaping ability and self-destructive tendencies that threatened to keep him earthbound. Another standout was Albert King, a fifteen-year-old phenom whose shy, quiet demeanor masked an otherworldly talent that eventually took him to the NBA. This edition also includes Telanders perspectives on the arrival of an NBA team in Brooklyn. Heaven Is a Playground is one of a kinda funny, sad, ultimately inspiring book about Americans and the roots of the sport that they love.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Schlagworte: 1973 • 1974 • arenas • Asphalt • aspiring brooklyn • Athletes • ball scene • basketball courts • basketball players • bball • books on arenas • books on athletes • books on ball scenes • books on basketball courts • books on brooklyns • books on coachings • books on colleges • books on flatbushes • books on hustlers • books on inner-cities • books on prep schools • books on promoters • books on reach successes • books on scholarships • books on streetball reaching s • books on street balls • books on youths • brooklyn new york • city basketball • coached • Coaching • college basketball • Colleges • crime filled • derrick melvin mario donawa carlos blackwood • flatbush • Ghetto • hustler • inner city • inner-city • New York City • phenom • Photographers • play basketball • players playing • Playgrounds • playing basketball • prep schools • pro ball • Promoter • quote explains • reach success • receive money • receiving money • rodney parker rodney • Scalping • Scholarships • scouted • Scouting • self-destructive • self-educated • street ball • Streetball • Texas • thirty-six-year-old • Ticket • womens • worrell • Youths
• ISBN-10: 1-61321-616-5 / 1613216165
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61321-616-3 / 9781613216163