This is the biography of NBA Hall of Fame player Elgin Baylor, an innovator in his sport, a civil rights trailblazer, and a superstar. It is the story of how a kid from the streets of segregated Washington, DC, who didn't attend college until he was over twenty, revolutionized basketball.
This is the biography of NBA Hall of Fame player Elgin Baylor, an innovator in his sport, a civil rights trailblazer, and a superstar. It is the story of how a kid from the streets of segregated Washington, DC, who didn't attend college until he was over twenty, revolutionized basketball.
Bijan C. Bayne is an award-winning Washington-based freelance writer who has written for Pro Basketball News, the Washington Post, The Boston Herald, Essence, and Washingtonian. He is a member of United States Basketball Writers Association, a founding member of the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America, and an executive board member and media relations director for the Association for Professional Basketball Research. Bayne is the author of Sky Kings: Black Pioneers of Professional Basketball, which was named to the Suggested Reading List of the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004, and Martha's Vineyard Basketball: How a Resort League Defied Notions of Race and Class (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).
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Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 From Streetball to Spingarn Chapter 2 Superstar or Secret Schoolboy? Chapter 3 "I Was Scared to Death, It Was My First Flight." Chapter 4 How The West Was Won Chapter 5 I Am Not an Animal...Put in a Cage Chapter 6 New Frontiers: The NBA's First Modern Player Chapter 7 The First Superstar Chapter 8 A Leader of Men Chapter 9 "The More I Was Determined To Prove The Doctors Wrong" Chapter 10 Wilt: The Unlucky Number 13 Chapter 11 Jazz Duet Chapter 12 Clipper Command Chapter 13 Rabbit Redux Bibliography Index About the Author
Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 From Streetball to Spingarn Chapter 2 Superstar or Secret Schoolboy? Chapter 3 "I Was Scared to Death, It Was My First Flight." Chapter 4 How The West Was Won Chapter 5 I Am Not an Animal...Put in a Cage Chapter 6 New Frontiers: The NBA's First Modern Player Chapter 7 The First Superstar Chapter 8 A Leader of Men Chapter 9 "The More I Was Determined To Prove The Doctors Wrong" Chapter 10 Wilt: The Unlucky Number 13 Chapter 11 Jazz Duet Chapter 12 Clipper Command Chapter 13 Rabbit Redux Bibliography Index About the Author
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