Boxed Out of the Nba - Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League

This book tells the story of the Eastern Professional Basketball League, a pro basketball institution for over 30 years. The league featured top players who just couldn't make the NBA-many because of scandals or because of unofficial quotas on Black players-with games played in tiny gyms across the northeast.

About the author

By Syl Sobel and Jay Rosenstein - Foreword by Bob Ryan

Summary

This book tells the story of the Eastern Professional Basketball League. Formed in the 1940s, it was a pro basketball institution for over 30 years, featuring top players who just couldn’t make the NBA—because of scandals, because they weren’t quite good enough, or because of unofficial quotas on black players.

Product details

• Authors: Jay Rosenstein, Syl Sobel, Syl Rosenstein Sobel, Sobel Syl
• Assisted by: Bob Ryan (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2021
• EAN: 9781538145029
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4502-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Basketball, SPORTS & RECREATION / Basketball, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, history of sport, Local History, History of the Americas, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States