Hoops : a cultural history of basketball in America /

"From its nineteenth-century roots to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. This book presents the first cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional men's and women's competit...

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Main Author: Aiello, Thomas, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]
Series:American ways series
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505 0 0 |g Prologue --  |t Muscular Christianity --  |t Professionalizing the amateur game --  |t The Negro leagues --  |t Early collegiate basketball --  |t The growth of the women's game --  |t Mid-century scandal --  |t The birth of the NBA --  |t Integration --  |t Race and civil rights --  |t The ABA and the merger --  |t Magic and Larry --  |t The Jordan rules --  |t College basketball at the millennium --  |t The rise of women's basketball --  |t The NBA in the twenty-first century --  |g Epilogue. 
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