Big Game, Small World

A Basketball Adventure

Alexander Wolff (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

2003
Little, Brown & Company (Verlag)
978-0-446-67989-3 (ISBN)

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To capture the amazing phenomenon that is basketball, Alexander Wolff travelled the world and chronicled the personalities, histories, tragedies and comedies spinning around the sport of basketball. The text shows how ferocity, power and grace appeal to the human passions in everyone.

In Bhutan the King has his own hoops tutor- and basketball helped ward off war. In Florida a three-on-three tournament draws the best schoolyard players in America. From China to New York and beyond, the quaint little sport that James Naismith invented in 1981 has leapt over boundaries and swept across language barriers around the globe. To capture this amazing phenomenon, Alexander Wolff traveled the world and chronicled the personalities, histories, tradgedies, and comedies spinning around the sport of basketball- and shows how ferocity, power, and grace appeal to the human passions in everyone.

Alexander Wolff is an award-winning senior writer for Sports Illustrated, and is considered the dean of basketball writing within the magazine industry.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.5.2004
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Basketball
ISBN-10	0-446-67989-5 / 0446679895
ISBN-13	978-0-446-67989-3 / 9780446679893
Zustand	Neuware