Heaven Is a Playground
(eBook)
Description
Loading Description...
Also in this Series
Checking series information...
More Details
Format
eBook
Language
English
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Rick Telander., & Rick Telander|AUTHOR. (2013). Heaven Is a Playground . Sports Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rick Telander and Rick Telander|AUTHOR. 2013. Heaven Is a Playground. Sports Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rick Telander and Rick Telander|AUTHOR. Heaven Is a Playground Sports Publishing, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Rick Telander, and Rick Telander|AUTHOR. Heaven Is a Playground Sports Publishing, 2013.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
Staff View
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | f8803461-92b7-1acd-af16-f0dc53a1d66e-eng |
---|---|
Full title | heaven is a playground |
Author | telander rick |
Grouping Category | book |
Last Update | 2024-04-23 21:58:41PM |
Last Indexed | 2024-04-24 02:28:34AM |
Book Cover Information
Image Source | hoopla |
---|---|
First Loaded | May 9, 2022 |
Last Used | Nov 24, 2023 |
Hoopla Extract Information
stdClass Object ( [year] => 2013 [artist] => Rick Telander [fiction] => [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/ssd_9781613216163_270.jpeg [titleId] => 12353389 [isbn] => 9781613216163 [abridged] => [language] => ENGLISH [profanity] => [title] => Heaven Is a Playground [demo] => [segments] => Array ( ) [pages] => 272 [children] => [artists] => Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [name] => Rick Telander [relationship] => AUTHOR ) ) [genres] => Array ( [0] => Basketball [1] => Coaching [2] => Essays [3] => History [4] => Sports & Recreation ) [price] => 1.29 [id] => 12353389 [edited] => [kind] => EBOOK [active] => 1 [upc] => [synopsis] => Heaven is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush. He slept on the floor of a park regular's apartment, observing, questioning, traveling, playing with, and eventually coaching a ragtag group of local teenagers whose hopes of better lives were often fanatically attached to the transcendent game itself. Telander introduces us to Fly Williams, a playground legend with incredible leaping ability and self-destructive tendencies that threatened to keep him earthbound. Another standout was Albert King, a fifteen-year-old phenom whose shy, quiet demeanor masked an otherworldly talent that eventually took him to the NBA. This edition also includes Telander's perspectives on the arrival of an NBA team in Brooklyn. Heaven Is a Playground is one of a kind-a funny, sad, ultimately inspiring book about Americans and the roots of the sport that they love. [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12353389 [pa] => [publisher] => Sports Publishing [purchaseModel] => INSTANT )