[nice clean copy, minimal handling wear; jacket mildly rubbed, very short corner creases in front flap]. Tragic life story of Bob Presley, a Detroit ghetto kid whose life went astray when he failed to make the NBA after a successful high school and college basketball career. "Basketball offers young blacks the dream of success: money and fame. Presley never realized these dreams; all he knew was the harsh reality of exploitation by those who control the game-- the coaches, the club owners, the media. [This book] is an indictment of this dream, and of the tremendous emphasis placed on baske... View More...
[nice tight clean copy; jacket a tiny bit rubbed, traces of edgewear here and there]. (B&W photographs) The author "has carefully probed the long history of Wolverine basketball to bring to life in these pages the innovative and courageous coaches, the sharp-shooting, slick-passing, board-crashing players, and the dynamic, come-from-behind teams that brought national prominence to Wolverine basketball--decades ago as well as just yesterday." (That would, of course,be the University of Michigan Wolverines--but if I gotta tell you that, you probably aren't interested in this book!) View More...
[small dent in edge of rear cover, no other discernible wear to book; jacket a little edgeworn, a couple of tiny tears along top and bottom edges, smallish scraped area near left-hand side of front panel, "25th Anniversary Edition" foil sticker on front panel, a bit of residue from a removed label at lower corner of rear panel]. (B&W and color photographs) Issued in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion, home of UCLA basketball since its opening in 1965, this book is organized in the following sections: "Games" (accounts of memorable individual basketball games pla... View More...
