Playgrounds to the Pros: Legends of Peoria Basketball
Autor Jeff Karzenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 feb 2023
Drawing on dozens of in-depth interviews, Karzen tells the stories behind the on-court triumphs while providing a panorama of the entire Peoria scene--the rivalries and relationships, the families and friendships, the hopes and hard work. Karzen also follows the players into their Division 1 and NBA careers and pays special attention to the pipeline that, by connecting Peoria to Champaign-Urbana, powered one of the most successful periods in Fighting Illini basketball history.
Intense and intimate, Playgrounds to the Pros chronicles a basketball golden age in America’s quintessential blue collar town.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780252086939
ISBN-10: 0252086937
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 26 black & white photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția 3 Fields Books
ISBN-10: 0252086937
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 26 black & white photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția 3 Fields Books
Recenzii
"Author Jeff Karzen has captured the spirit — the drama and the fun — of the River City during one of its great roundball runs. Now the legacies come to life through this incredibly well-sourced book that leaps past the scores and stats. It plunges into the inside tracks of some of the back stories intertwined in the high school roots that led to some historic hoops from the late 1980s to well into the 21st century." --Community Word
“You can’t tell the story of basketball in Illinois without telling the story of Peoria basketball. Jeff Karzen’s history is full of colorful characters, with deep backstories of their own, and the book does a terrific job of both uncovering these stories and telling them in an entertaining fashion. Heading into this book, I knew a little about Peoria basketball. Now I feel connected to it.”--Will Leitch, author of How Lucky: A Novel
“It's hard to explain how dominant Peoria basketball came to be during that period in the 1990s and 2000s. With a population around 200,000, Peoria produced one of the most overpowering high school basketball teams in U.S. history--and Manual High was not the city's only elite team. Once you read about the manic competition that surrounded former star player Tom Wilson's transfer from one school to another, you'll be hooked through to the final chapter about the often heartbreaking but ultimately triumphant story of NBA champion Shaun Livingston. The idea for this book was wonderful, but the execution beats it by double-digits.”--Mike DeCourcy, senior writer, The Sporting News
“You can’t tell the story of basketball in Illinois without telling the story of Peoria basketball. Jeff Karzen’s history is full of colorful characters, with deep backstories of their own, and the book does a terrific job of both uncovering these stories and telling them in an entertaining fashion. Heading into this book, I knew a little about Peoria basketball. Now I feel connected to it.”--Will Leitch, author of How Lucky: A Novel
“It's hard to explain how dominant Peoria basketball came to be during that period in the 1990s and 2000s. With a population around 200,000, Peoria produced one of the most overpowering high school basketball teams in U.S. history--and Manual High was not the city's only elite team. Once you read about the manic competition that surrounded former star player Tom Wilson's transfer from one school to another, you'll be hooked through to the final chapter about the often heartbreaking but ultimately triumphant story of NBA champion Shaun Livingston. The idea for this book was wonderful, but the execution beats it by double-digits.”--Mike DeCourcy, senior writer, The Sporting News
Notă biografică
Jeff Karzen is a sportswriter who has covered basketball recruiting for twenty years. He is the author of Homer: The Small-Town Baseball Odyssey.
Cuprins
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Anatomy of a Basketball Town
Chapter 2. Prince of Peoria
Chapter 3. Mayor of the South Side
Chapter 4. Legends, Titles, and University of Illinois Pipeline
Chapter 5. How the Seeds of Struggle Were Planted
Chapter 6. Tragedy of Mud
Chapter 7. Finding Oscar Mack
Chapter 8. First Family of Peoria Central
Chapter 9. Shaun Livingston and the Burden of Expectations
Interviews
Index
Chapter 1. Anatomy of a Basketball Town
Chapter 2. Prince of Peoria
Chapter 3. Mayor of the South Side
Chapter 4. Legends, Titles, and University of Illinois Pipeline
Chapter 5. How the Seeds of Struggle Were Planted
Chapter 6. Tragedy of Mud
Chapter 7. Finding Oscar Mack
Chapter 8. First Family of Peoria Central
Chapter 9. Shaun Livingston and the Burden of Expectations
Interviews
Index