Heaven is a playground : a journey into the sweet world of street basketball
Telander, Rick2023
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'Heaven is a Playground' was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush. He slept on the floor of a park regular's apartment, observing, questioning, travelling, playing with, and eventually coaching a ragtag group of local teenagers whose hopes of better lives were often fanatically attached to the transcendent game itself. Telander introduces us to Fly Williams, a playground legend with incredible leaping ability and self-destructive tendencies that threatened to keep him earthbound.
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Author:
Telander, Rick, author
Edition:
Fifth edition.
Imprint:
New York : Sports Publishing, 2023.
Collation:
288 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781683584728 (pbk)
Dewey class:
796.323
LC class:
GV887.3
Language:
English
BRN:
3486033
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