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Cages to jump shots : pro basketball's early years / Robert W. Peterson.
- Title
- Cages to jump shots : pro basketball's early years / Robert W. Peterson.
- Author
- Peterson, Robert, 1925-
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2002]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GV885.7 .P49 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 226 p. : ill., ports.; 21 cm.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-215) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. The Old Pros Remember 3 -- 2. The Birth of Basketball 15 -- 3. The Earliest Professionals 32 -- 4. Fumbling, Faltering, Failing 46 -- 5. The Rise of the Original Celtics 69 -- 6. Coming Out of the Cage 80 -- 7. On the Road Again 95 -- 8. Metamorphosis 108 -- 9. Seeds of the NBA 124 -- 10. The Big Man Cometh 142 -- 11. The BAA and War Between the Leagues 150 -- 12. The Infancy of the NBA 166 -- Appendix A Notes on Basketball's Origin 185 -- Appendix B Major Professional League Standings Year-by-Year, 1898-1954 187 -- Appendix C World Tournaments 206.
- ISBN
- 0803287720 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001052581
- OCLC
- 48177408
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library