Boxed out of the NBA (eBook)

Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League

Jay Rosenstein, Syl Sobel (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
240 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-4503-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The Eastern Professional Basketball League (1946-78) was fast and physical, often played in tiny, smoke-filled gyms across the northeast and featuring the best players who just couldn't make the NBAmany because of unofficial quotas on Black players, some because of scandals, and others because they weren't quite good enough in the years when the NBA had less than 100 players. In Boxed out of the NBA: Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League, Syl Sobel and Jay Rosenstein tell the fascinating story of a league that was a pro basketball institution for over 30 years, showcasing top players from around the country. During the early years of professional basketball, the Eastern League was the next-best professional league in the world after the NBA. It was home to big-name players such as Sherman White, Jack Molinas, and Bill Spivey, who were implicated in college gambling scandals in the 1950s and were barred from the NBA, and top Black players such as Hal ';King' Lear, Julius McCoy, and Wally Choice, who could not make the NBA into the early 1960s due to unwritten team quotas on African-American players. Featuring interviews with some 40 former Eastern League coaches, referees, fans, and playersincluding Syracuse University coach Jim Boeheim, former Temple University coach John Chaney, former Detroit Pistons player and coach Ray Scott, former NBA coach and ESPN analyst Hubie Brown, and former NBA player and coach Bob Weissthis book provides an intimate, first-hand account of small-town professional basketball at its best.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2021
• Vorwort: Bob Ryan
• Zusatzinfo: 34 Illustrations including: - 34 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1950s basketball • 1960s basketball • african american basketball history • African American History • basketball history • basketball in the Northeast • Eastern Professional Basketball League • NBA • professional basketball • sports pioneers
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-4503-0 / 1538145030
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-4503-6 / 9781538145036