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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Shake and Bake is the story of Archie Clark, one of the great NBA guards of the 1960s and 1970s.

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hardcover. Zustand: Good. General shelf wear. Pages are clean. Good reading copy. Creasing to cover.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 208 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 342 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The players today are much better than we were. But there is one thing that we could do better. We could pass the ball better than they can now. Man, we used to pass that basketball around like it was a hot potato.'--Sam 'Buck' Covington, former member of the Washington Bruinsn a nation distinguished by a great black athletic heritage, there is perhaps no sport that has felt the impact of African American culture more than basketball. Most people assume that the rise of black basketball was a fortuitous accident of the inner-city playgrounds. In Hot Potato, Bob Kuska shows that it was in fact a consciously organized movement with very specific goals.When Edwin Henderson introduced the game to Washington, D.C., in 1907, he envisioned basketball not as an end in itself but as a public-health and civil-rights tool. Henderson believed that, by organizing black athletics, including basketball, it would be possible to send more outstanding black student athletes to excel at northern white colleges and debunk negative stereotypes of the race. He reasoned that in sports, unlike politics and business, the black race would get a fair chance to succeed. Henderson chose basketball as his marquee sport, and he soon found that the game was a big hit on Washington's segregated U Street. Almost simultaneously, black basketball was catching on quickly in New York, and the book establishes that these two cities served as the birthplace of the black game.Hot Potato chronicles the many successes and failures of the early years of black amateur basketball. It also recounts the emergence of black college basketball in America, documenting the origins of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association, or CIAA, which would become the Big Ten of black collegiate sports.The book also details for the first time the rise of black professional basketball in America, with a particular emphasis on the New York Renaissance, a team considered by experts to be as important in the development of black basketball as the Harlem Globetrotters. Kuska recounts the Renaissance's first victory over the white world champion Original Celtics in 1925, and he evaluates the significance of this win in advancing equality in American sports. By the late 1920s, the Renaissance became one of the sport's top draws in white and black America alike, setting the stage for the team's undisputed world championship in 1939. As Edwin Henderson had hoped--and as any fan of the modern-day game can tell you--the triumphs certainly did not end there.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For most of the twentieth century, West Virginia was a college basketball hotbed. Its major programs were a success, but perhaps even more successful was the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, composed of fifteen schools that rarely earned headlines but set many records and became an identifiable part of small town culture and a source of state pride. This ethos exists today in small town Kentucky and Indiana but struggles to survive in West Virginia. Part of the reason is the state's population decline since the 1950s. That, author Bob Kuska argues, along with the rise of cable and satelliteTV and the major college basketball empire, stole the thunder--and the crowds--from these small town communities.And yet, these teams play on in obscurity and still find success. Against the backdrop of West Virginia's great small college history, Kuska chronicles the day-to-day struggles and triumphs of one modern school, Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, West Virginia. What happened to that team during a rags-to-riches yearlong stretch would've been remarkable at any level, let alone at a school with very low athletic department budgets and low visibility that makes recruiting talented players almost impossible.As he alternates between coaches and players, past and present, Kuska contrasts the fan enthusiasm of the conference's early years with the apathy that plagues the teams of the twenty-first century. If sports fans can get past the media and the madness that has made college basketball increasingly similar to professional basketball in its self-indulgence and sensationalism, they are left with leagues like the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference--scrappy, intelligent, and spirited--and still finding ways to succeed and thrive.…

Zustand: New. Most people assume that the rise of black basketball was a fortuitous accident of the inner-city playgrounds. In Hot Potato, Bob Kuska shows that it was in fact a consciously organized movement with very specific goals. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508. . 2004. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Zustand: New. Following the day-to-day struggles and triumphs of little Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, West Virginia, over four increasingly amazing seasons, this book offers an account of the thrill of a scrappy, underfunded, unappreciated team of real-life Hoo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shake and Bake is the story of Archie Clark, one of the top playmaking guards in the 1970s pre-merger NBA. While not one of the game's most recognized superstars, Clark was a seminal player in NBA history who staggered defenders with the game's greatest crossover dribble ("shake and bake") and is credited by his peers as the originator of today's popular step-back move. Signed as the Lakers third-round draft pick in 1966, Clark worked his way into the starting lineup in his rookie year. But Clark was more than a guaranteed double-double whenever he stepped on the floor. He was a deep-thinking trailblazer for players' rights. Clark often challenged coaches and owners on principle, much to the detriment of his career and NBA legacy, signing on as a named litigant in the seminal Robertson v. NBA antitrust case that smashed the player reserve system and jump-started the modern NBA. So lace up your high-top Chuck Taylors, squeeze into a pair of short shorts, and shake and bake back in time to the days of Wilt, Russell, Oscar, Jerry, Elgin, Hondo-and Archie.…

Zustand: New. Shake and Bake is the story of Archie Clark, one of the great NBA guards of the 1960s and 1970s.&Uumlber den AutorBob Kuska is a career science writer. He is the author of Hot Potato: How Washington and New York Gave Birth.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorBob Kuska, who spent a decade researching this book, is a science writer for the National Institutes of Health.KlappentextrnrnBob Kuska investigates the rise of black basketball not as a fortuitous .

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bob Kuska investigates the rise of black basketball not as a fortuitous accident of the inner-city playgrounds, but instead as a movement consciously organized by Edwin Henderson as a public health and civil-rights tool. The book covers the many successes and failures of black amateur basketball, and the rise of black college and professional basketball.…