Grass Roots and Schoolyards - Softcover

Campbell, Nelson

9780828906418: Grass Roots and Schoolyards

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0828906416 ISBN 13: 9780828906418

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1990

An anthology of stories about basketball, culled from newspaper accounts and sports magazines, features tales of superstar centers, pickup games, and championship wins

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From Publishers Weekly:

Campbell, retired Athletic Journal reporter, here assembles a collection of articles about high school basketball largely culled from local newspapers, with some excerpted from national magazines and books. The pieces are divided into three categories, embracing small towns, big cities and so-called in-betweens. The opening section, on the sport in rural hamlets, presents selections of a monotonous sameness: almost all concern the victories of teams from small schools over highly favored urban groupsDavid vs. Goliath again and again. The section on city teams has more variety, although there is an emphasis on black players achieving distinction. The final segment is the best, especially a chapter titled "A Town Divided," a sociological study in microcosm about Hamilton, Ohio.
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