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I Grew Up with Basketball: Twenty Years of Barnstorming with Cage Greats of Yesterday by Frank J. Basloe, D. Gordon Rohman (Paperback, 2012)

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Frank J. Basloe grew up in Herkimer, New York, where YMCA director Lambert Will developed the game of basketball. Basloe's classic memoir, I Grew Up with Basketball, offers an eyewitness account of the humble roots of the imposing enterprise that is professional basketball today. At age sixteen, Basloe began his career as a promoter and managed several teams that regularly toured New York, New England, and the Midwest, including the Oswego Indians and Basloe's Globe Trotters. Until the 1920s and the advent of the New York Original Celtics, New York Renaissance, and Harlem Globetrotters, Basloe's clubs reigned supreme among barnstormers. I Grew Up with Basketball is a fascinating and entertaining memoir of basketball's infancy and, for some, fuels the debate about the game's true origins by providing a counternarrative to the sanctioned history offered by the Hall of Fame. Though James Naismith's original concept is acknowledged, Basloe credits YMCA director Will for altering the game to be more exciting and fun to play as well as establishing early rules of play. This rare firsthand glimpse of the early days of basketball is complimented by Michael A. Antonucci's introduction, which tracks the game-from Basloe's Globe Trotters to LeBron James-and its trappings as a business vehicle.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13
9780803240230
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113695541

Product Key Features

Author
Frank J. Basloe, D. Gordon Rohman
Publication Name
I Grew Up with Basketball: Twenty Years of Barnstorming with Cage Greats of Yesterday
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
203mm
Item Width
133mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
D. Gordon Rohman, Frank J. Basloe
Genre
Sports
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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