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James Best
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Robert Bradley
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Re-visiting an old favorite -
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Robert:
RE: LOOSE BALLS
Excellent choice! One of my favorites as well.
Be sure to check out Terry Pluto's other book TALL TALES, about the early years of the NBA.
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James - I have that one too (bought it when it came out in 1992).
I also have been reading this one with a similar title recently -
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Ten older pro basketball books I would recommend -
24 SECONDS TO SHOOT, by Leonard Koppett, 1968
THE BREAKS OF THE GAME, by David Halberstam, 1981
SPENCER HAYWOOD: THE RISE, THE FALL, THE RECOVERY, by Spencer Haywood & Scott Ostler, 1992,
CAGES TO JUMP SHOTS: PRO BASKETBALL'S EARLY YEARS, by Robert W. Peterson, 1990
LOOSE BALLS, by Terry Pluto, 1990
TALL TALES, by Terry Pluto, 1992
THE BOOK OF BASKETBALL, by Bill Simmons, 2009
WHEN THE GAME WAS OURS, by Larry Bird, Magic Johnson & Jackie MacMullan
DREAM TEAM, by Jack McCallum, 2012
MICHAEL JORDAN: THE LIFE, by Roland Lazenby, 2014
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James Best
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Robert:
Excellent list. I have read the Halberstam and the two Pluto books. I think I will try to track down the Criblez book as well as it looks to be focused on the era of the NBA that I enjoy the most.
A few other basketball books that I have read and collected over the years...
GIANT STEPS (1983) by Kareem Abdul Jabbar - one of the first (and best) sports autobiographies I have ever read.
FORTY-EIGHT MINUTES (1989) by Terry Pluto and Bob Ryan.
FALLING FROM GRACE: Can Pro Basketball Be Saved? (1995) by Terry Pluto
THE RIVALRY: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball (2005) by John Taylor
SHOWTIME: Magic, Kareem, Riley and the LA Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s (2014) by Jeff Pearlman
I have also read a few basketball biographies of Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Julius Erving, Chamberlain, and Russell but I would put them all a notch or two below Kareem's effort.
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Robert Bradley
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James - I actually have all of those books too (some good choices). I write basketball reference books and try to real all the pro basketball books that I can get my hands on.
A some other good ones that come to mind are - WOODEN by Seth Davis (Besides being a great coach, Wooden was an early pro star after playing at Purdue in the 1930's), THE MOGUL: Eddie Gottlieb, Philadelphia Sports Legend and Pro Basketball Pioneer (as you probably know, Gottlieb was one of the most influential owners in the early year of the NBA) and SHOWBOAT by Roland Lazenby (a Kobe Bryant biography).
There are still a few subjects I'd love to see basketball biographies written on - David Stern, Bill Sharman, Bob Pettit, etc.).
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Robert Shepherd
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A question for all who have read Dune and the Wheel of Time series.
Reading Dune again, I'm fairly certain Robert Jordan modeled the Aiel after the Fremen in the Dune books. Or the Aiel were inspired by the Fremen.
My question: Are the Fremen an original concept or might they be modeled on something earlier in Herbert's experiences be they his or another authors?
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James Best
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Robert Cosgrove
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Just finished audiobook of Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough, which might be subtitled "Becoming Teddy Roosevelt." Follows Roosevelt in the context of his family, beginning with his parents, with generous attention to his sisters and brothers, through his youth, early political career, first marriage, death of his wife and mother on the same day, time in "the Badlands," and concluding about the time of his second marriage.
One amusing piece. Roosevelt's first Republican national convention found him a leader of the "stop Blaine" movement. Various predicted that if the Republican party nominated "the plumed knight" the party of Lincoln would have lost its soul, and suffered a blow from which it would probably never recover as a national party. Blaine was nominated, Roosevelt eventually effectively endorsed him, Cleveland defeated Blaine, and gosh, the Republican party survived. History worth keeping in mind when you hear that a particular election is going to be the death of one party or another.
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After watching Bosch on Amazon Prime I was wanting more stories featuring the character so I've been reading the Michael Connelly Bosch books the show is based on. There sure are a lot of them. And they are really good. Best one yet has to be the one I'm reading now, The Narrows.
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