Basketball Books

I wish I had had this book during the telecast of the women's soccer championship -- now I know what the commentators should have told me! Bartges's great illustrations and down-to-earth text likewise make the infathomable rules of ice hockey easy to understand -- I can't wait for the season to start so that I can test my newly gained expertise. My wife read the chapter on football and has already watched some exhibition NFL games -- and enjoyed them!

With the proliferation of sporting events on television, this book should be sitting beside every TV set.

This series combines good sports tips, great characters, and quirky, intelligent humor. If you want to get your son reading, this is the book!

It is an honor to be the first person to review this book. One of my greatest childhood memories is of my father taking my brother and I to see the Globetrotters in the late 60's. I fell in love with the show then and have gone to see them about ten times since then. I love introducing people to the trotters who never saw them in person before.Now this great new book comes along about the Trotters. It was too good to be true. This is a very scholarly tome. It is richly detailed. I came away from it marveling at the stamina and endurance of this team. Being in existence for 80 years is truly remarkable. This book traces the teams' history from their humble beginnings in the 1920's to their resurgence in 2005. I was startled by the poor conditions they played under early on. Abe Saperstein, the founder and owner of the team is an enigma. I found myself admiring him greatly at times and hating him for his veiled prejudice and sense of superiority.Mr Green devotes a lot of space to Goose Tatum and Marques Haynes. It is worth it to get to know these great players that came before my time. The story about Goose and his "son" was very funny. I was really looking forward to reading the section on Meadowlark Lemon. He was my globetrotter hero growing up and it was a bit sad to read about his career as a Trotter. The book really picks up steam when Mannie Jackson is introduced as the current owner of the team and all of his changes are instituted and the Globetrotters are returned to glory. The book has great closure.If I had one quibble with this book I would have liked to know more about the inner workings of the games and how the Trotters work with the Washington Generals or whichever team they are playing. I would have loved to have read what it is like playing against the Trotters night after night. It would have been interesting to read about the referees throughout the years. They have borne the brunt of many a globetrotter riff. It would have been nice to have seen them paid their due.I applaud Mr Green for an exhaustively written book about one of the greatest sports teams of all times.

This special edition magazine offers a glimpse at what Kentucky Basketball is and has been in the past. It offers small stories of championship teams of the past. Also included is a list of all time leading statistics. This is a must have for any UK fan, though it is not as in depth as I would have liked.

If you read the previous editions of this book you shouldn't be surprised. It is the ultimate book for NBA history and statistic freaks that just can't get enough of this stuff.

This book is a great book for all of the penny hardaway fans. it tells abot him and his life in basketball great gift and book

This book gives you a complete rap up of Dikembe's life. You feel as if you are there with him. You will never know a sports star better than this!

Dominique Wilkins, Sports Great cover the career of one of the all time greats. The book begins with the game 7 showdown with Larry Bird and the 88 Celtics, which is kind of sad as this is probably his NBA team highlight. It then talks about his parents living in France, Moving to America and his high school basketball. From there he moves onto Georgia, which is discussed in limited detial.

Then came his time as an Atlanta Hawk as one of the greatest players of the 80's and early 90's. The stupid trade by Atl for D 'no knees' Manning, just as Atl had moved to the top of the east. (No Bird, Isiah, MJ). the book then looks very breifly at Dominique's basketball journy form the Celts to Greece, to SA, to Italy, to Orlando.

As the only book i have ever seen on Dominique, its a great read with information i had never heard before. It is a little short (64 pages) but as the only Dominique book it gets 5 stars.

Karl Malone, an awesome, super star basketball player. In high school, he was a slacker that did not care for his grades. By his sophomore year he decided to work hard and get good grades. He was tired of practicing with the team and not playing in any games. By the middle of his sophomore year he had accomplished this and was practicing and playing. By the end of his senior year, he had two colleges fighting over him with scholarships. He decided to go with Louisiana Tech. Karl had started working on his grades a little late and had an average of 2.7 and he needed to have a 3.0 average. I believe any person could read this book, because it is easy to understand and read. I really like this book because it has a great theme, that theme is that if you work hard and want something work for itand you most likely will get it.

wow this author must be a genius, this was mindboggeling. everyone buy 3000 coppies and make it a best seller.