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Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordans Game and Beyond
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Examine the social and cultural impact of basketball on America at the amateur and professional levels!
Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordans Game and Beyond is a pioneering analysis of the history of basketball and its effect on popular culture from the 1970s to today. The popularity of basketball is undeniable, and the subject allows for such a broad range of interpretations in popular culture. It cuts across economic, racial, and social boundaries, and its major stars cross over into other forms of popular entertainment more than any other professional sport. This book examines the entire scope of modern basketball history, from the playgrounds, where people first learn the fundamentals, to the college and professional levels.
Basketball in America is a collection of essays that explores the intersection of basketball and popular culture in America. The contributors are an eclectic mix of writers, scholars, journalists, former players, coaches, and sports enthusiasts who all share an undying love for the game of basketball. The authors analyze the sport from a cross-cultural and historical perspectivedigging deep into the profound popular cultural influences of basketball and exploring the scope and depth of its influence. This is the first book that examines the social and cultural impact of basketball on American society to reveal how tightly it is woven into Americas cultural fabric. Also included are photographs and tables to enhance your understanding of the material.
Topics covered in Basketball in America include:

Elgin Baylorthe first modern basketball player
Chocolate Thunder and Short Shorts: The NBA in the 1970s
Dr. J, Bird, Magic, Jordan, and the Bad Boys: The NBA in the 1980s
The Jordan Era: The NBA in the 1990s
LeBron James and the future of the NBA
the Nike brand and popular culture
lessons learned from legendary UNC coach Dean Smith
professional womens basketball
and much more!

Basketball in America is a comprehensive analysis that will appeal to anyone interested in understanding how the sport has become an integral part of our national culture. It is an insightful read for sports fans as well as for sports historians. In addition, this book can be used as a textbook in sports history or sociology of sports classes. It will entertain and inform those who treasure basketball and the role it plays in the American consciousness. Make it part of your collection today!

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Basketball in America

From the Playgrounds
to Jordans Game and Beyond

To my family: Linda and Jon Bowen, Bill Coyle, and my wife,
Katherine, whose love makes everything possible.

Basketball in America

From the Playgrounds
to Jordans Game and Beyond

Bob Batchelor
Editor

First published by

The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580.

This edition published 2013 by Routledge

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2005 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilm, and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Cover design by Lora Wiggins.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Basketball in America: from the playgrounds to Jordans game and beyond /Bob Batchelor, editor.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-7890-1612-6 (hard: alk. paper)

ISBN-13: 978-0-7890-1613-3 (soft: alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-7890-1612-5 (hard: alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-7890-1613-3 (soft: alk. paper)

1. BasketballUnited StatesHistory20th century. 2. BasketballSocial aspectsUnited States. I. Batchelor, Bob.

GV883.B38 2005

796.3230973dc22

2004012032

CONTENTS

Bob Batchelor

David Davis

Kelly McMasters

Kevin Grace

Bijan C. Bayne

Chris Burtch

Peter Cashwell

Michael Buchert

Renada Rutmanis

James Fisher

David Friedman

Lisa A. Ennis

Lawrence E. Ziewacz

Doug Fox

Bob Batchelor

Bob Batchelor is an award-winning business writer and historian who currently serves as Public Relations Instructor in The School of Mass Communications at the University of South Florida. He is the author of The 1900s and co-author of Kleenex, Kotex, and Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer Revolution in America (forthcoming). Batchelor has published more than 350 articles and essays in magazines, Web sites, and reference works, including The American Prospect Online, Dictionary of American History, Inside Business, and Northern Ohio Live. He has taught both history and writing at Cleveland State University and Neumann College. As a historical consultant, Batchelor has worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies, including BellSouth, International Paper, Kimberly-Clark, and Accenture.

Bijan C. Bayne is the author of Sky Kings: Black Pioneers of Professional Basketball (Scholastic, 1998), which was added to the suggested reading list of the Kentucky Library System in 1998. In July 2002 he won the Robert Peterson Research Award for his presentation The Struggle of the Latin American Ballplayer, given at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. Baynes chapter on black baseball in North Carolina appears in the book Baseball in the Carolinas (McFarland, 2002). Bayne has guest lectured on the social significance of the life of Jackie Robinson each year since 1996 at The George Washington University, in classes and events such as Charter Day 1996 and Unity Week in 1999. His book reviews have been featured in Washington Post Book World, the Boston Herald, and The Crisis.

Michael Buchert was born in 1979 in Birmingham, Alabama. The product of a family steeped in the tradition of Friday night football, he attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he worked as a student manager for the mens basketball team. He was a member of two SEC Championship seasons at UF, including the miraculous run to the NCAA Final Four in 2000. He currently lives in New York City, where he is working on a masters degree in Art Therapy.

Chris Burtch is the former head boys basketball coach and a history teacher at Slippery Rock Area High School in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. Burtch played college basketball and baseball at Butler County Community College, and then finished his education at Slippery Rock University, where he earned a BA in education and an MA in history. Burtchs teams are known for their tough, hard-nosed defense and their dedication to fundamentals. His teams averaged fifteen wins a year and after a twenty-one-year stretch of the school not making the play-offs, he took the Rockets to the postseason four times in five seasons as head coach.

Peter Cashwell, a native of Chapel Hill and alumnus of the University of North Carolina, is the author of The Verb To Bird and coauthor of The Readerville Journals Loose Canons column. He lives in Virginia with his sons and his wife, writer Kelly Dalton, and lives on the Web at . He can still hit a hook shot.

David Davis is a contributing writer at Los Angeles Magazine. His work has appeared in, among others, the Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, and The Forward. On a good day, he can twirl a basketball on his finger.

Lisa A. Ennis is the government publications librarian at Austin Peay State Universitys Woodward Library. She received her MA in history from Georgia College and State University and her MS in information science from the University of Tennessee. Her publications include journal articles and contributions to a number of encyclopedias, such as the Scribners Encyclopedia of American Lives: Sports and Native Americans in Sports.

James Fisher is a doctoral candidate in history at Kent State University. His dissertation is a diplomatic and cultural history of the Shawnee Indians in the colonial period. His is also an adjunct lecturer in history at Mount Union College and has published articles and reviews on American Indian history, the American Revolution, genealogical research methods, and the 1960s.

Doug Fox is weekend editor at the Daily Herald in Provo, Utah, where he has worked since 1991. A longtime follower of the NBA, Fox, formerly the newspapers assistant and executive sports editor, covered the Utah Jazz beat for five years, including the franchises two trips to the NBA Finals (1997 and 1998). An award-winning writer and editor, for both sports and rock concert coverage, Fox is a graduate of Brigham Young University.

David Friedman is a freelance writer. His Digits column examines basketball statistics in each issue of Basketball Digest.

Kevin Grace is an archivist and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses on sports and society, including one on the sociology of basketball. He has published widely on Americas sport culture, and is the author of Cincinnati Hoops: Basketball in an American City and co-author of Bearcats! The Story of Basketball at the University of Cincinnati. Grace is a member of the Association for Professional Basketball Research, the Society for American Baseball Research, and the North American Society for Sport History, and has been a consultant to ESPN, the History Channel, and A&E. His current research interests focus on bloodsports, sport and education, basketball fiction, and basketball barnstormers.

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