| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Crux : The Georgia Series In Literary Nonfiction
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Crux (Athens, Ga.)
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| Contents |
Tryout -- First Practice -- Weave -- Warm-up -- Old Gym -- Your Number -- Chucks -- Getting to the Game -- Prelude -- A Note on Backboards -- Grade-School Gym -- Mr. Teevan -- To the Dads and Moms Who Coached Catholic Youth Organization Teams in Every Conceivable Sport -- In a Schoolyard in New York -- What Was the Worst Gym You Ever Played In? -- A Note on Dribbling -- Rims and Nets and Courts: A Note -- Boxing Out: A Note -- Boarding School -- A Basketball Story -- On the Outdoor Basketball Court at the Syracuse University Married Housing Apartment Complex -- Rules of the Game -- Llegamos Proximo! -- Weatherball -- Dribblage -- Suicide Sprint -- Cut -- Conscious Fouls: A Note -- Mr. Wilson's Hat -- A Note on Shots -- Scribbling and Dribbling: A Note -- Hints and Intimations: A Note -- Meat -- Hoooop -- Common Scents -- Getting the Nod -- Wild Impossible Shots: A Note -- Choosing Guys -- Backspin -- A Net Note -- Interior Calculus of Ball -- A Series of Humiliating Epiphanies -- Cuts and Spins and Whirls: A Note -- Being Beaver Smith -- Playing Ball in Brooklyn -- A Note on Redolence -- Common Cold of Basketball Injuries -- An Entertaining Journey through the Lane -- My College Basketball Career -- Who Was the Best Player You Ever Played Against? -- Guy in the Wheelchair -- Halftime -- Laces -- Playing Ball in New Jersey -- This Unconscious Sureness -- Cricket Lover -- Hook -- A Brief Note on Shorts -- A Small-Not-Small Moment -- Black Hole -- Mongo -- Flowing Chess of the Game -- Fast Break -- A Court in West Boston -- In My Defense -- Seven-Foot Guy -- Shooting: A Note -- A Passing Fancy -- A Day in Mayo -- In the Alumni Gymnasium at Dartmouth College Some Years Ago -- Guy Who Wore His Son Like a Scarf -- Mothers -- Covering Chris -- Dunking -- There's Lots of Other Stuff to See if You Look Real Close -- West Side -- Skinny Guy -- Otters v. Counselors -- Niece -- Laughing and Jigging and Laughing -- My Seventy Thousandth Foul -- His Last Game -- Young Woman -- Ballad of Jimmy Ward -- Two on Two -- Rec League -- Falcons -- Twenty Lefty -- A Note on Drills -- Court Where My Sons Used to Play Ball -- There Will Not Be So Many Chances Left to Watch Us -- Could It Possibly Be That Sport Is More Than Sport? -- A Language You Loved -- A Note of Thanks. |
| Summary |
"A creative nonfiction book in which the author reflects on his love for the game of basketball and "everything lovely and sinewy and deeply moving about the game invented one winter day in Massachusetts long ago." Using a collection of short essays, the author strives to present an account of a life living, playing, and coaching basketball" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Doyle, Brian, 1956 November 6-2017 May 27.
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Doyle, Brian, 1956 November 6-2017 May 27. |
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Basketball -- United States -- Biography.
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Basketball. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Basketball -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Doyle, Brian, 1956 November 6-2017 May 27. Hoop. Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017] 9780820351698 (DLC) 2017014286 (OCoLC)981118361 |
| ISBN |
9780820351704 (electronic book) |
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0820351709 (electronic book) |
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9780820351698 |
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0820351695 |
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