Wartime Basketball

Informationen zum Autor Douglas Stark is the museum director at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. He is the author of The SPHAS: The Life and Times of Basketball's Greatest Jewish Team. Klappentext Wartime Basketball tells the story of basketball's survival and development during World War II and how those years profoundly affected the game's growth after the war. Zusammenfassung Tells the story of basketball's survival and development during World War II and how those years profoundly affected the game's growth after the war. Weaving stories from the court into wartime and home-front culture like a finely threaded bounce pass, Wartime Basketball sheds light on important developments in the sport's history that has been largely overlooked. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Prologue Acknowledgments Introduction: A New Game 1. America Goes to War, 19411942 2. The Color Line Falls, 19421943 3. Wartime Basketball, 19431944 4. The Big Man Cometh, 19441945 5. Looking toward the Future, 19451946 Epilogue: Basketball Arrives Appendix A. National Basketball League (NBL) Standings Appendix B. American Basketball League (ABL) Standings Appendix C. World Professional Basketball Tournament Results Appendix D. Red Cross Charity Matches Appendix E. Service Team Records Notes Index

Autorentext
Douglas Stark is the museum director at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. He is the author of The SPHAS: The Life and Times of Basketball's Greatest Jewish Team.

Klappentext
Wartime Basketball tells the story of basketball's survival and development during World War II and how those years profoundly affected the game's growth after the war.

Zusammenfassung
Tells the story of basketball's survival and development during World War II and how those years profoundly affected the game's growth after the war. Weaving stories from the court into wartime and home-front culture like a finely threaded bounce pass, Wartime Basketball sheds light on important developments in the sport's history that has been largely overlooked.

Inhalt
List of Illustrations
Prologue
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A New Game
1. America Goes to War, 1941–1942
2. The Color Line Falls, 1942–1943
3. Wartime Basketball, 1943–1944
4. The Big Man Cometh, 1944–1945
5. Looking toward the Future, 1945–1946
Epilogue: Basketball Arrives
Appendix A. National Basketball League (NBL) Standings
Appendix B. American Basketball League (ABL) Standings
Appendix C. World Professional Basketball Tournament Results
Appendix D. Red Cross Charity Matches
Appendix E. Service Team Records
Notes
Index

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