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The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds

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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
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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)

Customer 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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