02236nam 2200529 450 991081870400332120170822145535.01-4422-4571-9(CKB)3710000000451375(EBL)4085957(SSID)ssj0001532081(PQKBManifestationID)12569032(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001532081(PQKBWorkID)11473079(PQKB)11086620(MiAaPQ)EBC4085957(EXLCZ)99371000000045137520151209h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrElgin Baylor the man who changed basketball /Bijan C. Bayne ; with a foreword by Bob RyanLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield,2015.©20151 online resource (237 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8108-9578-1 1-4422-4570-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.From streetball to Spingarn -- Superstar or secret schoolboy? -- "I was scared to death, it was my first flight." -- How the West was won -- I am not an animal put in a cage -- New frontiers: the NBA's first modern player -- The first superstar -- A leader of men -- "The more I was determined to prove the doctors wrong" -- Wilt: the unlucky number 13 -- Jazz duet -- Clipper command -- Rabbit redux.This is the biography of NBA Hall of Fame player Elgin Baylor, an innovator in his sport, a civil rights trailblazer, and a superstar. It is the story of how a kid from the streets of segregated Washington, DC, who didn't attend college until he was over twenty, revolutionized basketball.Basketball playersUnited StatesBiographyBasketball coachesUnited StatesBiographyBasketball playersBasketball coaches796.323092Bayne Bijan C.1720177Ryan BobMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818704003321Elgin Baylor4118604UNINA