Syl Sobel, Jay Rosenstein

Boxed out of the NBA

Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of the Eastern Professional Basketball League, a pro basketball institution for over 30 years. The league featured top players who just couldn't make the NBA-many because of scandals or because of unofficial quotas on Black players-with games played in tiny gyms across the northeast.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781538145029
• ISBN-10: 1538145022
• Artikelnr.: 60408921

Autorenporträt

By Syl Sobel and Jay Rosenstein - Foreword by Bob Ryan

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter I - Welcome to the Eastern League: A Brief History and the
Influences that Shaped It
Chapter II - Stars of the Early Years (1946-53)
Chapter III - The Fixers . . . and One Frustrated Superstar
Chapter IV -Blackballed: Race, the NBA, and the Rise of the Eastern League
Chapter V - The Glory Years (1954-67): The Second-Best League Around
Chapter VI - Stars of the Glory Years (1954-67)
Chapter VII - Tough Guys, Characters, and Urban Legends
Chapter VIII - Life in the Eastern League
Chapter IX - The Towns, the Gyms, the Fans: Big-Time Basketball on a Small
Scale
Chapter X - The Impact of the ABA and the Beginning of the End
Chapter XI - Stars of the ABA Era and the Eastern League's Final Years
(1967-78)
Chapter XII - The Coaches
Chapter XIII - The Refs
Chapter XIV - The CBA and the End of the Eastern League
Chapter XV - Legacy of the Eastern League
Chapter XVI - Epilogue: Life After the Eastern League
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors