Basketball Books

It's the basketball league championship and Cody suspects trouble when nobody shows up for practice. Larry Bird Lewis miss a practice? Something big must have happened. Cody spends precious time investigating as the minutes tick off for the semifinals. Fast and fun reading.

This book gives you an insight into some of the greatest characters of sports. The author is full of energy and definitly a sports fan. These coaches are not your average men, you have to read this book!

I loved Heaven Scent from the beginning. Liza is a teenage girl who is easy to relate to. Her father moves the family to another town. He has a promising job that he feels will bring the family happiness. Liza has to come to terms with leaving her friends and the life she had before the move. She also struggles with the demands of her fathers job. Her father is always working and Liza feels the family is neglected by his absense. As a reader, I could feel for Liza. I found myself wanting to read the book whenever I had a spare minute. As the story progresses you can feel the disappointment that Liza is feeling as her father continues to neglect the family. Liza's mother confides in her and tells her that she is also struggling with the same feelings and that she is finding peace in reading "The Book of Mormon". After a traumatic experience you are drawn more deeply to Liza and what she is going through. The story is very uplifting. It expresses the inner strength that Liza has even when everything else has crumbled around her. It shows us, as readers, that things can always get better if we choose to keep going, even when life gets tough. I loved the way the book deals with forgiveness. The story expresses how difficult it is to forgive, but also how vital it is for our own happiness. This is a story of forgiveness, peace, hope and healing. I would suggest this book to anyone wanting to read an uplifting and inspiring book.

This book documents the development of basketball from its inception in 1891 to the present. The book provides a thorough history of the sport as it relates to girls and women. While many fans of basketball see this sport as a man's game, basketball for girls and women spread like wildfire within a week of its invention. As I have researched girls basketball extensively, I think it is fair to say that historically, women were more enthusiastic about basketball than men....although everyone loved it from the beginning. Just as their is a rich history of the Negro Leagues that flourished before blacks were allowed to play in the majors, basketball for females also flourished obscurely on the high school and college level. Of particular interest were the industrial leagues of 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. Women were recruited to play for companies that sponsored women's teams to promote their business, attract good employees who were also good basketball players and to create employee loyalty in the face of threats for companies to unionize. These teams gave women a chance to travel and get paid for doing something they really loved.

There are two levels of girls and womens basketball; 1) the historical documentation of rules, leagues and great players and 2) the emotional impact the sport had on the lives of girls and women. This book deals with the former better than the latter. The research is careful and accurate. And it does tell the story. However, Jan Beran's book From Six on Six to Full Court Press, A Century of Iowa Girls' Basketball does a much better job of focusing on what basketball meant to the girls and women who made it part of their lives. I mention this not as a criticism but rather as a statement of focus. I find both books to be an invaluable source.

Girls basketball is my life. I coach girls high school basketball. I also teach young girls in basketball. This book is about the love for a game and the struggle of thousands of women to get equal gym time, equal pay and equal recognition. Great female basketball players have tremendous opportunity today. The great players of past decades became footnotes in sports history. This book does a good job of honoring all who have ever fell in love with the small orange sphere. Read this book and you will appreciate everything that girls' and womens' basketball is today. If you love girls basketball like I do, this is an informative, exciting and fun read.

This is the definitive work on the Spanish Inquisition. Any serious research on the subject should begin here. Lea writes in that wonderful late 19th century style, so the volumes are not only filled with valuable information they are not overly tedious to read.

I highly recommend this book for anybody that loves the game of basketball. I read this book in 2 days, it is that good! Mad props to the authors...

From Naismith and the creation of basketball to multimillion dollar deals and Lebron James.

But other than just being comprehensive Kirchberg's book is also fascinating and well-written. She does an excellent job of keeping you interested by combining information on the cultural impact of Basketball as well as a bit of humor along the way. Hoop Lore effectively combines the history of a subject into a concise neat little packet.

A must read for anyone who loves basketball!

Hoopmania has information that most basketball fans know, but what I found interesting was the new information. I like the way the book is organized, it made reading the facts and statistics easy.Before I read this book, I aready knew a lot about basketball trivia, but this book helped me learn much more. I never knew how basketball was invented.

This is one of few books that taught me to read. I love sportsso I read this book over and over and eventually became a goodreader. Another sports book that taught me to read was Soccer Sam. Iloved reading about Hakeem Olajuwon living in Nigeria, Charles Barkley's rough childhood, Shaq's shatterering the backboard, and about David Robinson going to the Naval Academy for college. I have probably read this book over one hundred times. This is defitinely one of the best books that I have ever read.

If you are a fan of the N.B.A. as I am, then you will thoroughly enjoy this colorful collection of NBA greats. I received it as a gift and I never get tired of looking through it. Any fan of photography will also enjoy this as well because many of these photos are just so breathtakingly beautiful. Everytime I view this collection (175 photos in all) I see something new and interesting. Walter Iooss Jr. has truly put together a treasure trove of photos and it's easy to see why he is one of the most well respected photographers that Sports Illustrated has ever had. If you love basketball or know someone that loves basketball this is a great book to own. It is also a rather well put together collage of NBA history and many of the photos brought back fond, vivid memories of my childhood idols. This is worth every penny and I was very lucky to receive it as a gift. (Thanks again mom!) I hope you enjoy it as well. I have a very good feeling you will!