Pickup Artists

Name: Pickup Artists
Brand: Verso Books
SKU: 9781859842430
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Street Basketball in America

Автор: Lars Anderson, Chad Millman

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Verso Books

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The history of blacktop basketball in fast-paced words and pictures. A New York street hustler. A lo...

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Автор

Lars Anderson, Chad Millman

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1999

страници

214

EAN

9781859842430

ISBN

1859842437

Enbook ID

25612001

Издател

Verso Books

Теглоt

232

Размери

195 x 128 x 25

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The history of blacktop basketball in fast-paced words and pictures. A New York street hustler. A lonely man in a Maryland prison. A confused Native American on a reservation in Idaho. What do they all have in common? They are among the best pickup basketball players in the country. In Pickup Artists, Lars Anderson and Chad Millman tell the complete story of the street game from its mythical past to its glorious present. Using original reporting to examine the evolution of playground basketball, Anderson and Millman are the first journalists to unravel the thickly woven tapestry of the sport’s subculture. Today’s super-hyped, corporate-sponsored tournaments weren’t always the norm. The foundation of the game was laid with sweat in the 1920s and it has grown from a rudimentary sport to a sophisticated exhibition. Basketball is more than macho melodramas acted out in America’s inner cities. It’s a town meeting in the heart of Indiana and symbol of freedom for prisoners in jail. Anderson and Millman tap into the essence of pickup basketball, examining its importance everywhere the game is played. They profile not just legends like Earl Marigault and Joe Hammond, but players like Fred "Spook" Stegman, the man who carries the legacy of being the first to connect the playgrounds with colleges, and Gregory Vaughn, whose tragic death in the 1980s exposed the underground world of drugs in basketball. Forget about the NBA and showtime. Pickup basketball is about basketball on the blacktops, at its most basic level. It’s about the unusual lives of some of the nation’s best players you’ve never heard of. Until now.

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