Category - History
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Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895-1970
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A prominent Navajo educator once told historian Peter Iverson that “the five major sports on the Navajo Nation are basketball, basketball, basket...
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When Mexicans Could Play Ball: Basketball, Race, and Identity in San Antonio, 1928-1945
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Winner, Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2014 In 1939, a team of short, scrappy kids from a vocational school establ...
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Hoop Muses: An Insider's Guide to Pop Culture and the (Women's) Game
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"In vibrant color and style, Hoops Muses tells the vital stories that celebrate the history and tradition of our game." --Sue Bird, WNBA legend Hoo...
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The Greatest Upset Never Seen: Virginia, Chaminade, and the Game That Changed College Basketball
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /No one had really heard of Chaminade University--a tiny NAIA Catholic school in Honolulu with fewer than eight hundred undergraduates--until its ba...
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Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A SELECTION ON BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER READING LIST The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustra...
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Sweetwater: A Biography of Nathaniel Sweetwater Clifton
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey decided to break the "color line" and integrate major league baseball in the 1940s, he spent ye...
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Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and fa...
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Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America
HardcoverOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /From its 19th-century roots to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. This boo...
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Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial de...
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The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In the spring of 1968, the Omaha Central High School basketball team made history with its first all-black starting lineup. Their nickname, the R...
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Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /How Michael Jordan's path to greatness was shaped by race, politics, and the consequences of fame To become the most revered basketball player in ...
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