Elgin Baylor - The Man Who Changed 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.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Bijan C. Bayne - Foreword by Bob Ryan

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Bijan C Bayne, Bijan C. Bayne, Bijan C./ Ryan Bayne, Bayne Bijan C.
• Assisted by: Bob Ryan (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780810895782
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-9578-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Basketball, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION / Basketball, Biography: sport