The Lives Times And Glory Days Of The Harlem Globetrotters 1946 1963
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The Lives Times And Glory Days Of The Harlem Globetrotters 1946 1963
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Author : Dick Burdette
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-01-12
The Lives Times And Glory Days Of The Harlem Globetrotters 1946 1963 written by Dick Burdette and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-12 with categories.
Through the hazy looking glass of myopic hindsight, the Harlem Globetrotters have long been perceived as a wholly orchestrated minstrel show: colorful, novel, slapstick, entertaining, most of all, timeless. They have always been, the thinking goes, what they are today: a traveling cartoon show. Handclapping, audience-participation fun for the whole family. A welcome, belly-laugh relief from the worrisome realities of everyday life. Like the circus, they come to town once a year, same time, same place, same script. Only the cast changes. But during their 1946-1963 glory years Americans and fans all the world revered them not only for their showmanship, but their amazing shooting, precision passing and dazzling ball handling.. In 1948, the 'Trotters laid legitimate claim to being the best basketball team in the world. They proved it on the court. On Feb. 19, 1948, before a Chicago Stadium crowd of 17,823, they beat 6-foot 10 George Mikan and the all-white Minneapolis Lakers 61-59. That same season, the Lakers won the professional American Basketball League championship. By 13 games ahead of their nearest rival. The following February 28, the 'Trotters did it again, this time 49-45 in front of 21,866 Chicago Stadium fans. A few months later, the Lakers would win the first-ever National Basketball Association- their first of five in six years -- en route to becoming the NBA's first dynasty. In 1950, the 'Trotters and the nation's best college All-Americans played an 18-game, coast -to-coast series billed as "The World Series of Basketball." The 'Trotters won 11 of the 18. Over the next several springs, they won 65 of 91 all-star games, all played before sellout crowds, including 36,256 in the Los Angeles Coliseum, at the time a new national attendance record; 31,000 in the Rose Bowl; and more than 20,000 in Madison Square Garden and the Chicago Stadium. By the time the annual college all-star series was discontinued in 1962, the 'Trotters had won 166 and lost only 44. This is the behind-the-scenes story, as told by , among others, men who lived it, including not only their unparalleled successes and zany antics on the court but what life was like after the lights went out and they walked off the court and became merely 12 black men touring segregated America on a bus.
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Author : Dick Burdette
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2008
written by Dick Burdette and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Pockets Full Awry
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Author : Dick Burdette
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2007-09-01
Pockets Full Awry written by Dick Burdette and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-01 with True Crime categories.
Jump Johnny Jump
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Author : Dick Burdette
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2007
Jump Johnny Jump written by Dick Burdette and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Basketball categories.
The Fabulous Waterloo Wonders
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Author : Dick Burdette
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-01-09
The Fabulous Waterloo Wonders written by Dick Burdette and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Now, on the 75h anniversary of their first championship season, author Dick Burdette, whose book, The Fabulous Waterloo Wonders was published in 1961, has re-printed it as the 75th Anniversary Edition
Swish
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Author : Suzanne Slade
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Swish written by Suzanne Slade and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with African American basketball players categories.
The true story of the high-flying Harlem Globetrotters -- the team that changed basketball forever. In this book you will find one-finger ball-spinning, rapid-fire mini-dribbling, and a ricochet head shot! You will find skilled athletes, expert players, and electrifying performers -- all rolled into one! You will find nonstop, give-it-all-you've-got, out-to-win-it, sky's-the-limit BASKETBALL! You will find THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS, who played the most groundbreaking, breathtaking ball the world had ever seen. With rhythmic writing and dynamic illustrations, Swish! is a celebration of the greatness, goodness, and grit of this remarkable team.
The Encyclopedia Of Hollywood Film Actors
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Author : Barry Monush
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2003-04-01
The Encyclopedia Of Hollywood Film Actors written by Barry Monush and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-01 with Performing Arts categories.
For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library. In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars – Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks – to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down. Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions – good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects. Contains over 1 000 photos!
Amc Classic Movie Companion
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Author : Robert Moses
language : en
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Release Date : 1999-06-23
Amc Classic Movie Companion written by Robert Moses and has been published by Hyperion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-23 with Performing Arts categories.
From the people at American Movie Classics, the premier classic movie network, comes the answer to every movie lover's dream: a complete A-to-Z reference guide to all of America's favorite Hollywood flicks. 100 photos.
The Cultural Cold War
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Author : Frances Stonor Saunders
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2013-11-05
The Cultural Cold War written by Frances Stonor Saunders and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with History categories.
During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA's] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA's undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA's astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
The Onion Book Of Known Knowledge
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Author : The Onion
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2012-10-23
The Onion Book Of Known Knowledge written by The Onion and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with Humor categories.
Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will ever need: The Onion's compendium of all things known. Replete with an astonishing assemblage of facts, illustrations, maps, charts, threats, blood, and additional fees to edify even the most simple-minded book-buyer, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is packed with valuable information -- such as the life stages of an Aunt; places to kill one's self in Utica, New York; and the dimensions of a female bucket, or "pail." With hundreds of entries for all 27 letters of the alphabet, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge must be purchased immediately to avoid the sting of eternal ignorance.