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Title: The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds by Pete Axthelm, Rick Telander ISBN: 0-8032-5934-4 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Almost great
Comment: Pete Axthelm has a handle on what makes basketball a wonderful sport, and why many of us are in love with it. He doesn't seem to know exactly what he wants to do with this book. Is he reporting on inner-city basketball heroes? On their gravity-defying dunks, or their lightning-quick handles? Or is he reporting on 1970, the year the Knicks won the NBA Championship. The two stories don't intertwin seemlessly as he would have them, and you are left feeling like you haven't been fulfilled on either of the stories in this book. I gave this book 4 stars based more on his obvious joy in writting it (which makes it very fun to read) than his actual skill in writting it. I would have been much happier buying two books as long as this one, one on inner-city basketball in New York City, and one on the Knicks Championship of 1970.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thanks Pete, RIP
Comment: In this exceptional book, the late Pete Axthelm covers the New York hoop scene; from the bright lights of the Garden to the unforgiving asphalt of 135th street in Harlem.
A history book for all basketaball lovers that includes a brilliant introduction by Rick Telander. Thank you for this gift Mr. Axthelm
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best In-Detail Summary ofthe NYCLegends & the Knicks 1st
Comment: This has the greatest combination of the Knicks first Championship season and the best of the playground Legends and Players. It shows the good and the bad of basketball in New York. It describes some legendary games by some of New York's finest athletes like the "Hawk","Goat","Destroyer","Helicopter",etc. If you love the true game you should get this book. Much love to Earl "The Goat" Manigualt who past away last year.
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Title: Heaven Is a Playground by Rick Telander ISBN: 0803294271 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Asphalt Gods : An Oral History of the Rucker Tournament by Vincent M. Mallozzi ISBN: 0385506759 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Game They Played by Stanley Cohen, Stan Cohen ISBN: 0786708212 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Last Shot : City Streets, Basketball Dreams by Darcy Frey ISBN: 0684815095 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 24 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title:Rebound - The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault ASIN: 630438601X Publisher: Hbo Studios Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.94 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.94 |
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