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_aRunstedtler, Theresa _eauthor. |
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_aBlack Ball : _bKareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA / _cTheresa Runstedtler |
| 250 | _aFirst trade paperback edition | ||
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_aNew York, NY : _bBold Type Books, _c2024 |
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_axiv, 355 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm |
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_atext _2rdacontent |
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_aunmediated _2rdamedia |
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_avolume _2rdacarrier |
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| 500 | _aIncludes index | ||
| 520 | _a"Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for the supposed decline of pro-basketball, citing drugs, violence, and greed. Basketball became a symbol for post-civil rights America: the rules had changed, allowing more Black people onto the playing field, and now they were ruining everything. Enter Black Ball, a gripping corrective in which scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball's "Dark Ages." Weaving together a deep knowledge of the game with incisive social analysis, Runstedtler argues that this much-aligned period was pivotal to the rise of the modern-day NBA."--Page 4 of cover | ||
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_aAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem, _d1947- |
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_aHaywood, Spencer, _d1949- |
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_aAfrican American basketball players _xHistory _y20th century |
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_aAfrican American basketball players _vBiography |
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_aBasketball _xSocial aspects _xHistory _zUnited States _x20th century |
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