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Elgin Baylor : the man who changed basketball / / Bijan C. Bayne ; with a foreword by Bob Ryan



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Autore: Bayne Bijan C. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Elgin Baylor : the man who changed basketball / / Bijan C. Bayne ; with a foreword by Bob Ryan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
Disciplina: 796.323092
Soggetto topico: Basketball players - United States
Basketball coaches - United States
Persona (resp. second.): RyanBob
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Elgin Baylor  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4422-4571-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797488603321
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