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The First Tip-Off: The Incredible Story of the Birth of the NBA Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Charley Rosen

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"Charley Rosen has undertaken the challenge of documenting the latest and greatest history of the game professionally--and has done so to great success. . . . . When I finished the book it seemed as if I had gone through another season, injuries and all. . . . Rosen skillfully leads readers through the NBA's first steps along its journey toward what it has become today."
--Phil Jackson, from the Foreword

"Rosen, a wonderful sportswriter . . . had forgotten more basketball history than the best fans will ever know."
Booklist, on No Blood, No Foul

Go back to a time when basketball players wore knee pads and itchy cotton jerseys. When even the team's leaders were grateful for dry towels, hot showers, and $60 paychecks. When winning was all that mattered.

In this vividly rendered and meticulously researched book, endorsed with a Foreword by Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson, sportswriter Charley Rosen takes you on a rollicking tour of the NBA's first season. Filled with rare archival photographs and exclusive interviews, The First Tip-Off brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters--including Chuck Connors, clown prince of the BAA, and Jumping Joe Fulks, ex-Marine turned basketball's first superstar--as Rosen deftly unfolds the dramatic events of that formative season.

It's enough to make you believe once again in the spirit of the sport.

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  • Title The First Tip-Off: The Incredible Story of the Birth of the NBA
  • Author Charley Rosen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McGraw-Hill Companies, US
  • Date 2008-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780071487856 / 0071487859
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.89 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.26 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Basketball - United States - History, National Basketball Association - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008005360
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

About the author

Charley Rosen is the author of fourteen books and a columnist for FoxSports.com. He is also a former player and was a head coach for nine years in the minor-league Continental Basketball Association. He lives in upstate New York.

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