Martha''s Vineyard Basketball - How a Resort League Defied Notions of Race and Class

Informationen zum Autor By Bijan C. Bayne Klappentext Martha’s Vineyard Basketball: How a Resort League Defied Notions of Race and Class follows the rich history of basketball on the Island and tells the stories of the players and coaches themselves. Zusammenfassung Martha’s Vineyard Basketball: How a Resort League Defied Notions of Race and Class follows the rich history of basketball on the Island and tells the stories of the players and coaches themselves. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Foreword by Wil Haygood Preface: The Courts: A Summer Love Affair Chapter 1 The Poorest County in Massachusetts Chapter 2 A Love of the Game Chapter 3 They Are Your Basic Schoolyard Ballplayers Chapter 4 "Those Kids Can Play!" Chapter 5 The Jaws Years Chapter 6 The Black Vacation Haven Chapter 7 Friendships Before Facebook Chapter 8 The Hog Call and "No Form Norm" Chapter 9 "That's All There Was to Do in the Winter" Chapter 10 Coming of Age Chapter 11 Seasons of Change Afterword: A Look Forward and Backward Commonly Used Terms: A Vineyard Basketball Glossary References Index About the Author

About the author

Bijan C. Bayne is an award-winning Washington-based freelance columnist and critic and a founding member of the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Herald, and SLAM, among others. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Bijan C. Bayne, Bayne Bijan C.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2015
• EAN: 9781442238961
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3896-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Basketball, Massachusetts, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, SPORTS & RECREATION / Basketball, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas