Heaven Is a Playground: A Journey Into the Sweet World of Street Basketball Telander Rick
Heaven Is a Playground: A Journey Into the Sweet World of Street Basketball Telander Rick Now in paperback!Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban…
Specifikacia Heaven Is a Playground: A Journey Into the Sweet World of Street Basketball Telander Rick
Heaven Is a Playground: A Journey Into the Sweet World of Street Basketball Telander Rick
Now in paperback!Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. He slept on the floor of a park regular's apartment, observing, questioning, traveling, playing with, and eventually coaching a ragtag group of local teenagers whose hopes of better lives were often fanatically attached to the transcendent game itself. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush.
Another standout was Albert King, a fifteen-year-old phenom whose shy, quiet demeanor masked an otherworldly talent that Telander introduces us to Fly Williams, a playground legend with incredible leaping ability and self-destructive tendencies that threatened to keep him earthbound.
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