Black Ball

di Theresa Runstedtler (Autore)

Xenia Willacey (Narratore)

Bold Type Books, 2023

A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for the supposed decline of pro-basketball, citing drugs, violence, and greed. Basketball became a symbol for post–civil rights America: the rules had changed, allowing more Black people onto the playing field, and now they were ruining everything. Enter Black Ball, a gripping corrective in which scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball’s “Dark Ages.” Weaving together a deep knowledge of the game with incisive social analysis, Runstedtler argues that this much-maligned period was pivotal to the rise of the modern-day NBA.

• Autore: Theresa Runstedtler
• Narratore: Xenia Willacey
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 11:00:07
• Anno edizione: 2023
• Editore: Bold Type Books
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9781549158483