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Hoop Lore : A History of the National Basketball Association by Connie Kirchberg (2007, Perfect)

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Author: Connie Kirchberg. Title: Hoop Lore. Subtitle: A History of the National Basketball Association. Format: Paperback. Missing Information?. Genre: Sports & Hobbies. Item Width: 18mm. Item Length: 152mm.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

ISBN-10078642673X

ISBN-139780786426737

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038706066

Product Key Features

Number of Pages347 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHoop Lore : a History of the National Basketball Association

SubjectGeneral, Basketball

Publication Year2007

TypeTextbook

AuthorConnie Kirchberg

Subject AreaSports & Recreation, History

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2006-036268

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"So many times in sports, and particularly in basketball, the glory days of a bygone era are overlooked or all-together forgotten, relegated to second-class citizenship behind the popularity and magnitude of today's big-time professional leagues. Kirchberg's Hoop Lore reverses this tendency, broadening the historical dialogue and tying the NBA to its illustrious past."--Matt Zeysing, Historian, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal796.323/64

Table Of ContentTable of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Jim Barnett Preface Introduction 1. Peach Fuzz 2. Play Ball 3. To Pay or Not to Pay 4. Color Lines 5. Around the Bend 6. Double Trouble 7. One for the Money 8. Tick Tock 9. Dynasty by Committee 10. Starlight, Star Bright 11. Tremors 12. The Real Deal 13. Survival of the Fittest 14. A Matter of Style 15. Last Hurrah 16. A Fighting Chance 17. Saviors 18. Glory Days 19. The Greatest Show on Earth 20. The Good, the Bad, and the Global 21. Intermission 22. The Greatest Show on Earth, II 23. Promised Land 24. The Dark Age 25. Staying Alive 26. The Money Tree 27. The Air Apparents 28. The Young and the Restless 29. The Global Revolution 30. A New Foundation 31. Renovation Appendix A: Early Professional Basketball Leagues Appendix B: Professional Basketball Commissioners Appendix C: Miscellaneous NBA Statistics and Awards Appendix D: Miscellaneous ABA Statistics and Awards Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisIn an age where teenage hoop stars sign multimillion-dollar endorsement deals before their first professional tip-offs, it's hard to imagine a time when basketball was among the least publicized of all professional sports. After the game's creation in 1891, establishing a viable professional league was an intense struggle, requiring decades of hard work and dedication from players, owners, coaches and fans. While the game evolved from two-handed set shots, fruit baskets, short-shorts and tiny gyms to slam dunks, shoe endorsements, global popularity and massive urban arenas, the NBA established itself as one of the world's dominant professional leagues. This work, the first comprehensive history of the National Basketball Association, offers a detailed look at how and why the NBA was able to overcome the obstacles that had crushed its predecessors and competitors to become the most successfully marketed league in professional sports. Covered here are Naismith's invention of the game; the rise and fall of the NBL, BAA, ABL and ABA; early teams like the Buffalo Germans and the Harlem Rens; basketball's Olympic debut in 1936; the first professional superstars; dominant franchises; and the current state of the league. Appendices offer lists of early professional basketball leagues and commissioners of the NBA, NBL and ABA., Covers 115 years of basketball, detailing how and why the NBA was able to overcome so many of the obstacles that crushed its predecessors to become the most successfully marketed league in all of professional sports. This work covers topics such as - the game's inventor, James Naismith; the Buffalo Germans in the early 1900's; and more., This work covers 115 years of basketball, detailing how and why the NBA was able to overcome so many of the obstacles that crushed its predecessors to become the most successfully marketed league in all of professional sports. Topics covered are the game's inventor, James Naismith; the Buffalo Germans in the early 1900's; the barnstorming Harlem "Rens" and the Original Celtics with Joe Lapchick in the Roaring 20's; how basketball became an Olympic sport in 1936 in Berlin; players of the early NBA as well as the recent; and the struggles of the early NBL, BAA, ABL, and the ABA., This work, the first comprehensive history of the National Basketball Association, offers a detailed look at how and why the NBA was able to overcome the obstacles that had crushed its predecessors and competitors to become the most successfully marketed league in professional sports. Covered here are Naismith's invention of the game; the rise and fall of the NBL, BAA, ABL and ABA; early teams like the Buffalo Germans and the Harlem Rens; basketball's Olympic debut in 1936; the first professional superstars; dominant franchises; and the current state of the league. Appendices offer lists of early professional basketball leagues and commissioners of the NBA, NBL and ABA.

LC Classification NumberGV885.515.N37K57