Isbn: 9781496226488 - jump shooting to a higher degree: my basketball odyssey (8 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jump Shooting to a Higher Degreechronicles Sheldon Anderson's basketball career from grade school in small-town Moorhead, Minnesota, in the 1960s, to inner-city high school and college ball in Minneapolis, to a professional career in West Germany, and finally to communist Poland, where he did PhD research while on a basketball junket behind the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s. Because he was the only American player in the league at the time, and with help from a Polish scholar, Anderson was one of the first Western scholars to gain access to Communist Party documents. He's also likely the only American scholar to have funded his research by playing semi-pro basketball in a communist country.Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree is much more than a basketball story. Anderson provides insights into the everyday lives of people on either side of the Iron Curtain, such as the English coach he played for in West Germany, an elderly woman he visited many times in East Germany, and a sailmaker's family he lived with in Warsaw. He reflects on German, Polish, and Cold War history, providing a commentary on the times and the places where he lived and played, and the importance of basketball along the way.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree chronicles Sheldon Anderson s basketball career from grade school through his years playing professionally in West Germany and communist Poland in 1987.&Uumlber den AutorSheldon Anderson is a .