Rivalry Saturday
Author : Dave Hollingsworth
Publisher : Pediment Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2005-12-01
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ISBN : 9781597250245
Author : Dave Hollingsworth
Publisher : Pediment Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2005-12-01
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ISBN : 9781597250245
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Page : 744 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 1872
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Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 1879
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Author : John Taylor
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0812970306
A BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE NBA’S GLORY DAYS, AND THE RIVALRY THAT DOMINATED THE ERA In the mid-1950s, the NBA was a mere barnstorming circuit, with outposts in such cities as Rochester, New York, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Most of the best players were white; the set shot and layup were the sport’s chief offensive weapons. But by the 1970s, the league ruled America’s biggest media markets; contests attracted capacity crowds and national prime-time television audiences. The game was played “above the rim”–and the most marketable of its high-flying stars were black. The credit for this remarkable transformation largely goes to two giants: Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain. In The Rivalry, award-winning journalist John Taylor projects the stories of Russell, Chamberlain, and other stars from the NBA’s golden age onto a backdrop of racial tensions and cultural change. Taylor’s electrifying account of two complex men–as well as of a game and a country at a crossroads–is an epic narrative of sports in America during the 1960s. It’s hard to imagine two characters better suited to leading roles in the NBA saga: Chamberlain was cast as the athletically gifted yet mercurial titan, while Russell played the role of the stalwart centerpiece of the Boston Celtics dynasty. Taylor delves beneath these stereotypes, detailing how the two opposed and complemented each other and how they revolutionized the way the game was played and perceived by fans. Competing with and against such heroes as Jerry West, Tom Heinsohn, Bob Cousy, John Havlicek, and Elgin Baylor, and playing for the two greatest coaches of the era, Alex Hannum and the fiery Red Auerbach, Chamberlain and Russell propelled the NBA into the spotlight. But their off-court visibility and success–to say nothing of their candor–also inflamed passions along America’s racial and generational fault lines. In many ways, Russell and Chamberlain helped make the NBA and, to some extent, America what they are today. Filled with dramatic conflicts and some of the great moments in sports history, and building to a thrilling climax–the 1969 final series, the last showdown between Russell and Chamberlain–The Rivalry has at its core a philosophical question: Can determination and a team ethos, embodied by the ultimate team player, Bill Russell, trump sheer talent, embodied by Wilt Chamberlain? Gripping, insightful, and utterly compelling, the story of Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain is the stuff of sporting legend. Written with a reporter’s unerring command of events and a storyteller’s flair, The Rivalry will take its place as one of the classic works of sports history.
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Page : 1328 pages
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Release : 1918
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
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Author : Kirk Herbstreit
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982171014
The face and voice of college football, in this riveting and revealing memoir, takes readers behind the scenes, describing how a combination of hard work, perseverance and a little luck landed him on the set of ESPN's iconic College GameDay.
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Page : 998 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 1879
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Author : Richard Whittingham
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Sports & Recreation
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Page : 876 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 1896
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Page : 504 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Television programs
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