Ultimate Guide to Basketball: Facts * Stats * Stars & Stuff
Author:   James Buckley, Jr
Publisher:   Beach Ball Books
ISBN:  

9781936310135


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   11 January 2011
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Ultimate Guide to Basketball: Facts * Stats * Stars & Stuff


Overview

Thank goodness for Dr James Naismith. If you do not know who he is, you will find out in this amazing fact-filled book. (Okay, we'll tell you: He invented basketball.) In this book, you will find page after page of amazing stuff about basketball, a sport that is now popular world-wide. Read about how the first pro leagues began; meet the greatest stars of past and present, and dig into basketball plays, slang, positions, statistics, and much more. This is the one-stop shopping spot for hoop heads everywhere! Your favourite professional team is in here. There is a special two-page section on every professional team. Read about Jerry West, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and dozens more. Learn why basketball players are called cagers, what a trey is, and why it's okay to be a gym rat! Whether you follow college or pro hoops, this fact-packed, buzzer-beating book will be a slam dunk.

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Author:   James Buckley, Jr
Publisher:   Beach Ball Books
Imprint:   Beach Ball Books
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.274kg
ISBN:  

9781936310135


ISBN 10:   1936310139
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   11 January 2011
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents 1. Waking Up 2. The Pirate 3. The Classroom 4. Jimbo 5. A Bishop in his Heart 6. Big Mike Tries 7. The Apartment 8. Mary, Mary 9. Freckles 10. The Files 11. Dr. O 12. The Treatise 13. What's Wrong With This Picture? 14. The Machine 15. The Pandemic 16. Why Shouldn't I? Appendix A. Transcription of The Treatise B. NCI Cancer Statistics, 1973-88 C. Autopsy Report - Mary Sherman D. Mary Sherman's Medical Records Bibliography

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James Buckley Jr. is also the author of the Ultimate Guide to Football and the Ultimate Guide to Baseball, among more than one hundred other sports books for young readers. He is a former editor at Sports Illustrated and NFL Publishing.

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