Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA by Theresa Runstedtler
- Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
- Theresa Runstedtler
- Page: 384
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781645036975
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
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A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league then, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for the supposed decline of pro basketball, citing drugs, violence, and greed. Basketball became a symbol for post-civil rights America: the rules had changed, allowing more Black people onto the playing field, and now they were ruining everything. Enter Black Ball, a gripping history and corrective in which scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball’s “Dark Ages.” Weaving together a deep knowledge of the game with incisive social analysis, Dr. Runstedtler argues that this much-maligned period was pivotal to the rise of the modern-day NBA. Black players introduced an improvisational style derived from the playground courts of their neighborhoods. They also challenged the team owners’ autocratic power, garnering higher salaries and increased agency. Their skills, style, and savvy laid the foundation for the global popularity and profitability of the league we know today.
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Black Ball by Theresa Runstedtler
A new generation of Black players entered the league then, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and
A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and
A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA. Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation.
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA. byTheresa Runstedtler. Hardcover. Price: $29.00. +. Black
Black Ball // Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood
A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA. Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation.
Black Ball by Theresa Runstedtler
A new generation of Black players entered the league then, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and
A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBAAgainst a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the
A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation
At a time when racial fears haunted the NBA, Black players
Theresa Runstedtler's 'Black Ball' recounts the league's turbulence in the 1970s and '80s, and the new stars who laid the foundations of modern basketball.
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