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"Did you know that the first game of basketball was played with a soccer ball? And that players used peach baskets as hoops? Basketball has since become a major sport around the world, with players working hard to make it to the NBA. Emerging readers will enjoy learning about the exciting world of professional basketball in this slam-dunk title"--Provided by the publisher.
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"At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices...
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Bucky Lew burst through pro basketball’s color barrier to become the first Black player in an otherwise white league. And playing was just a start. He wanted to dominate in every single role in the game—from player to coach to general manager to owner. His dream looked to be deferred when Harry Hough, the league’s best player, refused to play against him in a regular season matchup that the press billed as a preview of the championship. Not...
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"Since the inception of the Atlantic Coast Conference, intense rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players, and fervent fans have come to define the league's basketball history. Walker traces the traditions and the dramatic changes that occurred both on and off the court during the conference's rise to a preeminent position in college basketball between 1953 and 1972"--
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"The history of the Boston Celtics professional basketball team from its start in 1946 to today, spotlighting the franchise's greatest players and reliving its most dramatic moments"--Provided by publisher.
Presents a history of the professional basketball team from its start in 1946 to today, spotlighting the franchise's greatest players and reliving its most dramatic moments.
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"The unlikeliest of champions, the 1949-50 City College Beavers were extraordinary by every measure: City College was a tuition-free, merit-based college in Harlem known for its intellectual achievements and political radicalism rather than its athletic prowess. Only two years after Jackie Robinson broke the major league baseball color barrier (and the NBA was still segregated), every single member of the Beavers was either Jewish or African American....
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