Elgin Baylor : the man who changed basketball / / Bijan C. Bayne ; with a foreword by Bob Ryan
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Bayne Bijan C.
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| Titolo: |
Elgin Baylor : the man who changed basketball / / Bijan C. Bayne ; with a foreword by Bob Ryan
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-4422-4571-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797488603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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