Bijan C Bayne

Elgin Baylor

The Man Who Changed Basketball

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the biography of NBA Hall of Fame player Elgin Baylor, an innovator in his sport, a civil rights trailblazer, and a superstar. It is the story of how a kid from the streets of segregated Washington, DC, who didn't attend college until he was over twenty, revolutionized basketball.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780810895782
• ISBN-10: 0810895781
• Artikelnr.: 49448053

Autorenporträt

By Bijan C. Bayne - Foreword by Bob Ryan

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 From Streetball to Spingarn
Chapter 2 Superstar or Secret Schoolboy? Chapter 3 "I Was Scared to Death,
It Was My First Flight." Chapter 4 How The West Was Won Chapter 5 I Am Not
an Animal...Put in a Cage Chapter 6 New Frontiers: The NBA's First Modern
Player Chapter 7 The First Superstar Chapter 8 A Leader of Men Chapter 9
"The More I Was Determined To Prove The Doctors Wrong" Chapter 10 Wilt: The
Unlucky Number 13 Chapter 11 Jazz Duet Chapter 12 Clipper Command Chapter
13 Rabbit Redux Bibliography Index About the Author