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Loose Balls The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association

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ISBN-10: 141654061X

ISBN-13: 9781416540618

Edition: N/A

Authors: Terry Pluto

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What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Slam Dunk Contest have in common? They all got their professional starts in the American Basketball Association. The NBA may have won the financial battle, but the ABA won the artistic war. With its stress on wide-open individual play, the adoption of the 3-point shot and pressing defense, and the encouragement of flashy moves and flying dunks, today's NBA is still -- decades later -- just the ABA without the red, white and blue ball. Loose Ballsis, after all these years, the definitive and most widely respected history of the ABA. It's a wild ride through some of the wackiest,…    
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Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 11/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Alan Katz is the author of many seriously silly books for children, including the bestselling Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs, illustrated by David Catrow. Alan lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut, with his journalist wife, Rose, and their four children.nbsp;He can also be found at alankatzbooks.com.David Catrow is the illustrator of numerous notable books for children, including the other Silly Dilly books, as well as Kathryn Lasky's She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!, which was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Mr. Catrow is also a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist whose work appears in the New York Times, the Los Angeles…    

Introduction
Cast of Characters
Year-by-Year Standings and Franchise Histories
ABA Team Logos
Prologue
Opening Gambits Birth Pangs
The Ball
The First Jumper
The Shakeout Begins
Finding Players
Opening Tip
The 3-Pointer
Larry and Doug
The Hawk
Bad Times in Oakland
First-Year Notebook: 1967-68The $1.3 Million Glass Ring: An ABA ""Success"" Story
The Leaders Crumble
Second-Year Notebook: 1968-69Saved from the Brink
Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and Third in the Western Division?Sideshow in Miami
Third-Year Not