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Author: Norm Vener
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Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781467589918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe finest pictorial book ever produced on Pistol Pete Maravich. Containing over 225 color and black and white photos. This book has been featured in the Basketball Hall of Fame as well as the LSU Basketball Museum.
Author: Adam J. Criblez
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-06-09
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1442277688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn basketball, just as in American culture, the 1970s were imperfect. But it was a vitally important time in the development of the nation and of the National Basketball Association. During this decade Americans suffered through the war in Vietnam and Nixon’s Watergate cover-up (not to mention disco music and leisure suits) while the NBA weathered the arrival of free agency and charges that its players were “too black.” Despite this turmoil, or perhaps because of it, the NBA evolved into a cultural phenomenon. Tall Tales and Short Shorts: Dr. J, Pistol Pete, and the Birth of the Modern NBA traces the evolution of the NBA from the retirement of Bill Russell in 1969 to the arrival of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson ten years later. Sandwiched between the youthful league of the sixties and its mature successor in the eighties, this book reveals the awkward teenage years of the NBA in the seventies. It examines the many controversies that plagued the league during this time, including illicit drug use, on-court violence, and escalating player salaries. Yet even as attendance dwindled and networks relegated playoff games to tape-delayed, late-night broadcasts, fans still pulled on floppy gray socks like “Pistol Pete” Maravich, emulated Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s sweeping skyhook, and grew out mushrooming afros à la “Dr. J” Julius Erving. The first book-length treatment of pro basketball in the 1970s, Tall Tales and Short Shorts brings to life the players, teams, and the league as a whole as they dealt with expansion, a merger with the ABA, and transitioning into a new era. Sport historians and basketball fans will enjoy this entertaining and enlightening survey of an often-overlooked time in the development of the NBA.
Author: Pete Maravich
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780805483420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeir to a Dream follows the life of Pete Maravich after his retirement from the NBA in 1980 when he was still a top scorer. His faith experience several years later--which literally turned his life around--is chronicled. 8-page photograph insert.
Author: Mark Kriegel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-02-05
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 0743284984
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Author: Wayne Federman
Publisher: Focus on the Family Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781589975354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetails the life and professional career of NBA guard Pete Maravich, and discusses his family, education, playing in the NCAA at Louisiana State University, his embracement of Christianity, and more until his death at the age of forty.
Author: PETER. WEBER
Publisher: Blue Balloon Books
Published: 2021-08-24
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781955026048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dan Joseph
Publisher: Sunbury Press
Published: 2021-11-09
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781620068984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe career of supremely talented but ill-fated Brooklyn Dodger star Pete Reiser comes to life in this new biography from baseball author Dan Joseph (Last Ride of the Iron Horse). Only a tendency to smash into outfield walls stopped Reiser from earning a spot in baseball's Hall of Fame.
Author: Team Rollock
Publisher: E-Booktime Llc
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781598241167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late 1980's at the height of New York Cities crack epidemic, there was a 15 year old boy in the Soundview section of the Bronx who had dreams of making it big. As a child, all of his elders from his parents, to his teachers, to his basketball and football coaches, would always tell him that he had the special ability to accomplish anything that he set his mind to, therefore he should always reach for his dreams. But what happens when your dream is to become one of the youngest, most feared, Drug King Pins in New York City history, and you actually achieve that goal??? While Trigga is a hardcore street tale full of action and detailed descriptions of all of the dealing and killing that goes on in the drug world in the inner city of New York, overall the story is laced with a positive message that can be life changing for people of all ages, races and genders everywhere. "Sometimes in life a persons dreams can betray them. Once you choose the conduct, you choose, and must accept the consequences of that behavior."
Author: Wayne Federman
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781894963527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGaining access to personal letters, albums and scrapbooks, plus spending hours with family members among some 300 interviews, has allowed the authors to craft the definitive biography of one of the most remarkable basketball stories in history. They reveal new facts and provide startling insight into Pistol Pete Maravich, who lived a life of triumph and tragedy before finding happiness in religion in the years before his death at age 40.
Author: Danny Brown
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2008-03-24
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 0807133272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery basketball team has its star player. From 1967 to 1970, Louisiana State University saw the rise of a legend: "Pistol Pete" Maravich, one of the greatest basketball players in LSU history and arguably the greatest to ever play college basketball. Known for his dazzling ball handling, creative passing, and extraordinary shooting, he averaged 44.2 points per game at LSU -- without the benefit of a three-point line -- and remains the NCAA's all-time leading scorer. Danny Brown, a journalism student at LSU during most of Pete's college years, took hundreds of photographs at LSU basketball games as part of his course work. In Shooting The Pistol, Brown offers more than eighty photographs -- most never before published -- of Pete in action, along with game statistics and personal recollections, to form the single most complete portrait ever made of Maravich at LSU. Danny first met Pete not on the basketball court, but during Air Force ROTC training, where Danny was Pete's squadron sergeant. Upon learning that the tall, scrawny guy with the shaved head and the purple-and-gold beanie cap was scoring 40 points a game on the freshman team, Danny replied, "That kid can play basketball?" Danny eventually became friends with Pete and his father, Coach "Press" Maravich, and his images pay tribute to an amazing athlete and a magical time in LSU sports history. Brown's photographs provide intimate courtside views of Pete's gravity-defying, play-making skills. Many capture Pete in midair, where he seemingly floats, his off-balance body positions resembling moves in an athletic ballet. Famous for his ability to stop on a dime, Pete -- as Brown's pictures demonstrate -- often caught opponents flat-footed as he quickly maneuvered for an opening to the basket or sent a sudden "no-look" pass to a teammate. The volume culminates in Brown's near-perfect photographs of Pete's shot that broke the NCAA scoring record during the 1970 Ole Miss game and of the ensuing game-stopping victory celebration. While the majority of the images here show number 23 in motion, several reveal the personal side of the shy star, including a rare game attendance by his mother and quieter off-court moments with his father. Throughout, Brown weaves a rich conversational commentary -- anecdotes about Pete, circumstances surrounding the more notable photographs, and descriptions of the games and Pete's performance.Seeing LSU's basketball phenomenon Pete Maravich through Danny Brown's lens will transport fans back in time, under the goal, to witness firsthand the making of college sports history.
