The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds

ISBN-13:	9780803259348
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	02/01/1999
Pages:	218
Sales rank:	129,118
Product dimensions:	5.18(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.48(d)

Pete Axthelm follows the 1969–70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes clearly, intelligently, and passionately about the game, bringing alive the players’ efforts, accomplishments, and failures.