Loose Balls

Author : Terry Pluto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439127522
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loose Balls written by Terry Pluto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Slam Dunk Contest have in common? They all got their professional starts in the American Basketball Association. What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Slam Dunk Contest have in common? They all got their professional starts in the American Basketball Association. The NBA may have won the financial battle, but the ABA won the artistic war. With its stress on wide-open individual play, the adoption of the 3-point shot and pressing defense, and the encouragement of flashy moves and flying dunks, today's NBA is still—decades later —just the ABA without the red, white and blue ball. Loose Balls is, after all these years, the definitive and most widely respected history of the ABA. It's a wild ride through some of the wackiest, funniest, strangest times ever to hit pro sports—told entirely through the (often incredible) words of those who played, wrote and connived their way through the league's nine seasons.

Author : Jayson Williams
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0767909380
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loose Balls written by Jayson Williams and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first candid report from a land of fragile egos, available women, unexpected tenderness, intramural fistfights, colossal partying, bizarre humor, inconceivable riches, and desperate competition, Loose Balls does for roundball what Ball Four did for hardball. From revelations about the meanest, softest, and smelliest players in the league, to Williams’s early days as a “young man with a lot of money and not a lot of sense,” to his strong and powerful views on race, privilege, and giving back, Loose Balls is a basketball book unlike any other. No inspirational pieties or chest-thumping boasting here—instead, Jayson Williams gives us the real insider tales of refs, groupies, coaches, entourages, and all the superstars, bench warmers, journeymen, clowns, and other performers in the rarefied circus that is professional basketball.

Author : Terry Pluto
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803287662
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tall Tales written by Terry Pluto and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the NBA from 1956 to 1966, after the introduction of the 24-second shot clock, highlights those who dominated the sport during its "glory days," including Red Auerbach, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Boston Celtics.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066231
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame." —Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge—insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.

Author : Terry Pluto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780684807669
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling from Grace written by Terry Pluto and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pluto looks at the causes contributing to the deline of the NBA, including a look at the Continental Basketball Association.

Author : Jill Miller
Publisher : Victory Belt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628600748
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roll Model written by Jill Miller and published by Victory Belt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain is an epidemic. It prevents you from performing at your best because it robs you of concentration, power, and peace of mind. But most pain is preventable and treatable, and healing is within your grasp. Hundreds of thousands of people around the globe have taken life “by the balls” and circumvented a dismal future of painkillers, surgeries, and hopelessness by using Jill Miller’s groundbreaking Roll Model Method. The Roll Model gives you the tools to change the course of your life in less than 5 minutes a day. You are a fully equipped self-healing organism, and this book will guide you through easy-to-perform self-massage techniques that will erase pain and improve your performance in whatever activities you pursue. The Roll Model teaches you how to improve the quality of your life no matter your size, shape, or condition. Within these pages you will find: • Inspiring stories of people just like you who have altered the course of their lives by using the Roll Model Method • Accessible explanations of how and why this system works based on the science of your body and the physiological effects of rolling • Step-by-step rolling techniques to help awaken your body’s resilience from head to toe so that you have more energy, less stress, and greater performance Whether you’re living with constant discomfort, seeking to improve your mobility, or trying to avoid medication and surgery, this book provides empowering and effective solutions for becoming your own best Roll Model.

Author : Laurence Ball
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429244097
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money, Banking and Financial Markets written by Laurence Ball and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breakthrough text that closes the gap between economic theory and the day-to-day behaviour of banks and financial markets. Working from a macro framework based on the Fed's use of interest rate, Ball presents the core concepts necessary to understand the problems of the stock market and the causes of recessions and banking crises

Author : Gary West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935001829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association written by Gary West and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on stories from Lloyd "Pink" Gardner, trainer for the Colonels, and interviews with Colonel owners, players, coaches, management, and fans, this book chronicles the Kentucky ABA pro-basketball team from the 1960s and 70s.

Author : Cameron Bane
Publisher : WildBlue Press
ISBN 13 : 1942266189
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pitfall written by Cameron Bane and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2015-07-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Action, gunplay, and well-crafted storytelling . . . for those whose hearts pump hot for shoot-’em-up adventures like Taken and John Wick.”—Robert Liparulo, bestselling author of the Dreamhouse Kings series Life has never been easy for former Army Ranger John Brenner. The wounded Iraqi war vet and ex-cop must rely on his wits, his fists, and a wry sense of gallows humor to make it through each challenging day. For at his core, this transplanted West Virginian is a throwback to an antebellum time: he is a southern man of honor. But his latest mission may be his last. The task seems straightforward—find industrialist Jacob Cahill’s missing teenage daughter and bring her safely home. But for John, nothing ever goes quite as planned. What begins as a simple disappearance morphs into something far more insidious as he finds himself plunged into a horrifying world of organ harvesting, torture, mutilation, and madness. Every dark trick John learned in his former trade of dealing death to the deserving will be brought to bear as he tries to keep his promise of bringing the girl back alive. In doing so, not only will his skills be tested to the breaking point, but his very sanity as he battles a grasping evil that stretches across the globe . . . “The star of this page-turner—former Army Ranger John Brenner—well, let’s just say in terms of skill, wit, and ability to kick some serious butt, Jack Reacher better watch out!”—Robert Liparulo, bestselling author of the Dreamhouse Kings series

Author : Brian Pinkney
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1368004466
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Ball written by Brian Pinkney and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen loves playing ball. But it doesn't always "love" him back. And after a particularly disastrous day on the field, Owen is benched. He is feeling so low that he doesn't even notice the ball rolling through a hole in the fence until it's gotten away. In his effort to get it back, he discovers that he has more skills than he realizes.