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John Taylor

The Rivalry

Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball

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A BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE NBA'S GLORY DAYS, AND THE RIVALRY THAT DOMINATED THE ERAIn the mid-1950s, the NBA was a mere barnstorming circuit, with outposts in such cities as Rochester, New York, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Most of the best players were white; the set shot and layup were the sport's chief offensive weapons. But by the 1970s, the league ruled America's biggest media markets; contests attracted capacity crowds and national prime-time television audiences. The game was played above the rim”-and the most marketable of its high-flying stars were black. The credit for this remarkable transformation largely goes to two giants:… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-58836-496-8
  • EAN: 9781588364968
  • Produktnummer: 15725446
  • Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 432 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 461 KB

Über den Autor


John Taylor, a journalist for more than two decades, has been a contributing editor at New York magazine and a senior writer for Esquire. He is the author of four books, including, most recently, The Count and the Confession, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Falling, which Entertainment Weekly ranked as one of the five best nonfiction books of 1999. He lives in East Moriches, New York, with his wife, Jeannette Walls.

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