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27 produkter
Bullpen Diaries
Mariano Rivera, Bronx Dreams, Pinstripe Legends, and the Future of the New York Yankees
E-bok, 2011
157 kr
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"Delightful and insightful." —John Thorn, author of Total BaseballBaseball is the only sport where the defense has the ball, and there is no lonelier in the world of sports than the pitcher''s mound. Which makes Yankee relievers among the most scrutinized and intriguing group of athletes in the …
First Tip-Off: The Incredible Story of the Birth of the NBA
E-bok, 2008
371 kr
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"Charley Rosen has undertaken the challenge of documenting the latest and greatest history of the game professionally--and has done so to great success. . . . . When I finished the book it seemed as if I had gone through another season, injuries and all. . . . Rosen skillfully leads readers through …
Crazy Basketball
A Life in and Out of Bounds
Inbunden, 2011
366 kr
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Commentator, analyst, author, and all-around pro basketball presence, Charley Rosen may seem like a natural, sprung upon the sports scene with the NBA in his blood. Phil Jackson, Rosen's longtime collaborator, might agree; after all, he attributes the statement on a plaque on his desk to Charley: …
Perfectly Awful
The Philadelphia 76ers' Horrendous and Hilarious 1972-1973 Season
Inbunden, 2014
366 kr
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During the 1972–1973 basketball season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start after losing their leading scorer and rebounder, Billy Cunningham, as well as head coach Jack Ramsay, they lost twenty-one of their first twenty-three games. …
Chosen Game
A Jewish Basketball History
Inbunden, 2017
286 kr
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A few years after its invention by James Naismith, basketball became the primary sport in the crowded streets of the Jewish neighborhood on New York’s Lower East Side. Participating in the new game was a quick and enjoyable way to become Americanized. Jews not only dominated the sport for the next …
Players and Pretenders
The Basketball Team That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Häftad, 2007
232 kr
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Players and Pretenders tells the story of the flip side of basketball's "March Madness," where the game is played by average players for love, not for money. At the end of the 1970s at Bard College, where there was no pretense of institutional support, Charley Rosen gathered his hoops hopefuls and …
No Blood, No Foul
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
233 kr
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Jason Lewis is a star college basketball player just back from World War II. He’s a hero, missing two fingers on his shooting hand. He can’t play any longer, so he makes the ultimate ballplayer’s sacrifice: he becomes a referee. Set in postwar New York during the founding of what will eventually be …
Wizard of Odds
How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball
E-bok, 2011
207 kr
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In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously …
House of Moses All-Stars
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
214 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book Here is the story of an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. A hilarious road novel, The House of Moses All-Stars is also a passionate portrayal of a young Jewish man struggling to …
More Than a Game
Av Charley Rosen, Phil Jackson
E-bok, 2011
289 kr
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More than a Game is the odyssey of Jackson''s journey—from New York Knick and world champion, to CBA coach, to six-time Chicago Bulls world champion, to this year''s L.A. Lakers world champion—and the lessons in leadership he learned each step of the way. It is the tale of Rosen''s journey as well, …
House of Moses All-Stars
A Novel
Häftad, 2012
181 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book Here is the story of an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. A hilarious road novel, The House of Moses All-Stars is also a passionate portrayal of a young Jewish man struggling to …
Sammy Wong, All-American
Häftad, 2014
156 kr
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Sammy Wong, All-American tells the tale of an Asian basketball player’s rise and stumble. American basketball may be among the most international of team sports, yet until recently Asians were unwelcome. On his high school, college, and professional teams, Sammy isn’t given much of a chance. Then …
Sammy Wong, All-American
E-bok, 2014
189 kr
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Sammy Wong, All-American tells the tale of an Asian basketball player’s rise and stumble. American basketball may be among the most international of team sports, yet until recently Asians were unwelcome. On his high school, college, and professional teams, Sammy isn’t given much of a chance. Then …
Trouthe, Lies, and Basketball
Häftad, 2019
193 kr
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Elliot Hersch is given a basketball on his tenth birthday and cuts a deal with his disapproving father: if he makes straight As, he is allowed to play. Modeling his game on the basketball heroes of his time--Clyde Frazier, Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson, and especially Larry Bird--Elliot becomes …
Trouthe, Lies, and Basketball
E-bok, 2019
185 kr
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Elliot Hersch is given a basketball on his tenth birthday and cuts a deal with his disapproving father: if he makes straight As, he is allowed to play. Modeling his game on the basketball heroes of his time--Clyde Frazier, Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson, and especially Larry Bird--Elliot becomes …
Dribbling a Basketball on the Road to Damascus
Häftad, 2025
193 kr
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A bildungsroman and the most autobiographical yet of Charley Rosen's many works of fiction, nonfiction and reportage on the subject of basketball, Dribbling a Basketball on the Road to Damascus tells the story of the life of Chazz Klein, a power forward and elite scorer who starts at Metropolitan …
Fight Game in Black and White
A History of Black Boxing
Häftad, 2026
194 kr
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Here is Peter Jackson, a free-born Black tradesman and boxer from the island of St. Croix who KO'd the white boxer Tom Leeds in the thirtieth round to win the Australian Heavyweight championship in 1886. Most white fighters refused to get into the ring with Jackson. 'Gentleman' Jim Corbett was one …
Barney Polan's Game
Inbunden, 1997
243 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book In Barney Polan's Game, Charley Rosen takes on the legendary point-shaving scandals of 1950 and '51, when the best of the college basketball players took money from gamblers in return for affecting the outcomes of games, never knowing that in the process they were …
Cockroach Basketball League
Häftad, 1998
144 kr
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The Cockroach Basketball League follows the tribulations of hard-driving coach Bob Lassner of the Savannah Stars, a team in the Commercial Basketball League—a fiction drawn from Rosen's own nine years experience coaching in the minor-league Continental Basketball Association. Lassner is an aging …
The Scandals of '51
How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball
Häftad, 1900
200 kr
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The college basketball scandals of 1951 were to basketball what the 1919 Black Sox scandals were to baseball—a loss of innocence, after which the game would be permanently tarnished, its relationship to power and big money firmly established. In Scandals of '51, Charley Rosen identifies all the …
Sugar
Micheal Ray Richardson, Eighties Excess, and the NBA
Inbunden, 2018
304 kr
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The 1980s were arguably the NBA’s best decade, giving rise to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan. They were among the game’s greatest players who brought pro basketball out of its 1970s funk and made it faster, more fluid, and more exciting. Off the court the game was changing rapidly …
More Than A Game
Av Phil Jackson, Charley Rosen
Inbunden, 2001
277 kr
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More than a Game covers the years that follow the one featured in the ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance." After leaving the Bulls at the end of the 1997-1998 season—the year featured in the new ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance"—Phil Jackson had one year off and started to write this …
Wizard Of Odds
How Jack Molinas Nearly Destroyed the Game of Basketball
Inbunden, 2001
239 kr
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Renowned and bestselling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us the long-awaited life of Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, and one of its most notorious cheaters. Drawing on trial transcripts as well as numerous, previously unavailable first-person accounts, including …
The Wizard of Odds
How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball
Häftad, 1900
197 kr
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In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously …
