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The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds
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The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds Paperback - 1999

by Pete Axthelm; Introduction by Rick Telander


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Pete Axthelm follows the 1969-70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes clearly, intelligently, and passionately about the game, bringing alive the players' efforts, accomplishments, and failures. Pete Axthelm was an editor for Newsweek. Rick Telander is a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a writer for ESPN Magazine.

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PETE AXTHELM follows the 1969-70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes clearly, intelligently, and passionately about the game, bringing alive the players' efforts, accomplishments, and failures.

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  • Title The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds
  • Author Pete Axthelm; Introduction by Rick Telander
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 218
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bison Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
  • Date 1999-02-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780803259348 / 0803259344
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.36 x 0.48 in (20.37 x 13.61 x 1.22 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects New York Knickerbockers (Basketball team) -, New York Knickerbockers (Basketball team)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98051369
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.323

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Citations

  • New York Times, 03/28/1999, Page 28

About the author

Pete Axthelm was an editor for Newsweek. Rick Telander is a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a writer for ESPN Magazine.
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