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City game : basketball in New York /
- Title
- City game : basketball in New York / edited by William C. Rhoden ; foreword by Walt "Clyde" Frazier.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa : In association with Museum of the City of New York, 2020.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 189 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 34 cm
- Alternative Title
- Basketball in New York
- Subjects
- Note
- Accompanies an exhibition presented at the Museum of the City of New York in the spring of 2020.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-188).
- Contents
- The mecca of basketball -- Manhattan takes Brooklyn: NYC's first black fives matchup -- Mr. Basketball: Nat Holman invents the city game -- Boys from the city: New York's Jewish basketball stars -- The city game is born -- Black fives -- College rivalries -- The destroyer, the hawk & the pearl: Rucker's legends -- Rock, rubber, 45s: b-ball, kicks & beats -- Fields of asphalt: lost in the city game -- I got next: girls & streetball -- 1,800 courts, five boroughs, one city -- Trash talk -- New York City's legendary streetball courts -- Interviews with William C. Rhoden. Kenny Smith ; Tom Konchalski ; Chamique Holdsclaw ; Mark Jackson ; Kenny Atkinson -- Too big for just one: Knicks, Nets & Liberty -- Clyde cool -- Knicks win the championship 1970 & 1973 -- Knicks, Nets & Liberty -- Celebrity row -- Time line -- Urban heartbeat: conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780847867622
- 0847867625
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library