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Download or read book The City Game written by Pete Axthelm and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA fascinating chronicle of New York basketball, from the concrete courts of the city’s parks to the bright lights of Madison Square Garden/divDIV/divDIVThe New York Knickerbockers, one of the NBA’s charter franchises, played professionally for twenty-four years before winning their first championship in 1970, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in a thrilling seven-game series. Those Knicks, who won again in 1973, became legends, and captivated a city that has basketball in its blood./divDIV /divDIVBut this book is more than a history of the championship Knicks. It is an exploration of what basketball means to New York—not just to the stars who compete nightly in the garden, but to the young men who spend their nights and weekends perfecting their skills on the concrete courts of the city’s parks. Basketball is a city game, and New York is the king of cities./div
Download or read book The City Game written by Matthew Goodman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful story of a college basketball team who carried an era’s brightest hopes—racial harmony, social mobility, and the triumph of the underdog—but whose success was soon followed by a shocking downfall “A masterpiece of American storytelling.”—Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Devil in the Grove NAMED ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW The unlikeliest of champions, the 1949–50 City College Beavers were extraordinary by every measure. New York’s City College was a tuition-free, merit-based college in Harlem known far more for its intellectual achievements and political radicalism than its athletic prowess. Only two years after Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier—and at a time when the National Basketball Association was still segregated—every single member of the Beavers was either Jewish or African American. But during that remarkable season, under the guidance of the legendary former player Nat Holman, this unheralded group of city kids would stun the basketball world by becoming the only team in history to win the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year. This team, though, proved to be extraordinary in another way: During the following season, all of the team’s starting five were arrested by New York City detectives, charged with conspiring with gamblers to shave points. Almost overnight these beloved heroes turned into fallen idols. The story centers on two teammates and close friends, Eddie Roman and Floyd Layne, one white, one black, each caught up in the scandal, each searching for a path to personal redemption. Though banned from the NBA, Layne continued to devote himself to basketball, teaching the game to young people in his Bronx neighborhood and, ultimately, with Roman’s help, finding another kind of triumph—one that no one could have anticipated. Drawing on interviews with the surviving members of that championship team, Matthew Goodman has created an indelible portrait of an era of smoke-filled arenas and Borscht Belt hotels, when college basketball was far more popular than the professional game. It was a time when gangsters controlled illegal sports betting, the police were on their payroll, and everyone, it seemed, was getting rich—except for the young men who actually played the games. Tautly paced and rich with period detail, The City Game tells a story both dramatic and poignant: of political corruption, duplicity in big-time college sports, and the deeper meaning of athletic success.
Download or read book City/Game written by William C. Rhoden and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The players, people, flavor, and contributions New York has given the game. From the playgrounds to the NBA, New York has invented a way of playing basketball, and City/Game is not only about the three renowned NBA teams--the Knicks, the Nets, and the Liberty--and their predecessors, but also the many high-school and college basketball teams with legendary rivalries. Through art and testimonials from the fans, coaches, and players, we learn about Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Kenny Anderson, and Chris Mullin, all birthed on the city blacktop and who took their skills to the NBA hardwood. Explore the famous street-ball courts on a map of the five boroughs, including Rucker Park and the Cage on West 4th Street, home to Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, and Kyrie Irving; read about New York's style of play--like the infamous one-handed jump shot--and glossary of NYC-style trash talk and slang; see "celebrity row" photographs courtside at the Garden and Barclay's Center; revel in the images, headlines, and objects related to the 1970 and 1973 championship Knicks. Packed with new and archival images, this book brings the energy of the sport through original essays by noted writers and highlights from players, fans, and rising stars of the New York scene and features interviews with NBA greats including Queens-born Kenny Smith and Bronx-born former Knick Rod Strickland. A great book for any basketball fan to relive old memories and learn new details.
Book Synopsis The Man-Made City by : Gerald D. Suttles
Download or read book The Man-Made City written by Gerald D. Suttles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-03-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad-shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's failure to keep pace with others, its failure to attract new "sunrise" industries and world-class events. For Chicago, as for other rust-belt cities, new ways of planning and managing the urban environment are now much more than civic beautification; they are the means to survival. Gerald D. Suttles here offers an irreverent, highly critical guide to both the realities and myths of land-use planning and development in Chicago from 1976 through 1987.
Book Synopsis City of Mist Role-Playing Game Core Book by : Amit Moshe
Download or read book City of Mist Role-Playing Game Core Book written by Amit Moshe and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detective role-playing game in a city of ordinary people and legendary powers
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Download or read book City of Mist Master of Ceremonies Toolkit City of Mist RPG Supp. written by Modiphius and published by Modiphius. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detective role-playing game in a city of ordinary people and legendary powers
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Download or read book The City of St. Paul and Vicinity written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bulletin of the American Game Protective Association (varies Slightly written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston by : School Committee of the City of Boston
Download or read book Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston written by School Committee of the City of Boston and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The City of New York Official Directory by : New York (N.Y.)
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Book Synopsis Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882 by : Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
Download or read book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882 written by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Petition of Game Salesmen, Poulterers, Fishmongers, and Dealers in Wild Fowl, and of Hotel-keepers ... in the City of London, to the Right Hon. Russell Gurney ... and the Other Justices of the City of London ... 5th January, 1878 by : Game Salesmen, Poulterers, &c. (London)
Download or read book Petition of Game Salesmen, Poulterers, Fishmongers, and Dealers in Wild Fowl, and of Hotel-keepers ... in the City of London, to the Right Hon. Russell Gurney ... and the Other Justices of the City of London ... 5th January, 1878 written by Game Salesmen, Poulterers, &c. (London) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The City Record by : New York (N.Y.)
Download or read book The City Record written by New York (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ordinances Governing the City of Jacksonville of the State of Illinois by : Jacksonville (Ill.).
Download or read book Ordinances Governing the City of Jacksonville of the State of Illinois written by Jacksonville (Ill.). and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book City of Tulsa, Oklahoma written by Tulsa (Okla.) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
