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Charley Rosen
In basketball, as in life, if there is no blood, there is no foul.
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The 1980s were arguably the NBA’s best decade, giving rise to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan. One player who personified the eighties excess is Micheal Ray Richardson. Tracking…
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Elliot Hersch is given a basketball on his tenth birthday and cuts a deal with his disapproving father- if he makes straight As, he is allowed to play. Modeling his…
Now in paperback, The Wizard of Odds chronicles the rise and fall of Jack Molinas, the outstanding NBA All-Star who fixed games, cavorted with the Mafia, produced pornographic films, and…
This bittersweet comic novel follows the House of Moses All-Stars–a third-rate Jewish basketball team–as it crosses the country seeking hope, redemption, and a winning season. Charlie Rosen is also the…
One of America’s foremost basketball novelists takes on the legendary point-shaving scandals of early 1950’s college basketball. The book is based in fact but tells the story from a human…
This affectionate look at life in the basketball minor leagues is enlivened by real-life details from a coach who’s been there. Mr. Rosen skillfully induces the reader to join ‘the…
During the 1972-73 season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start, they lost twenty-one of their first twenty-three games, on…
A few years after its invention by James Naismith, basketball became the primary sport in the crowded streets of the Jewish neighborhood on New York’s Lower East Side. Participating in…
Sammy Wong, All-American tells the tale of a very talented Asian basketball player’s rise and stumble in the all-American sport of basketball–among the most international of team sports, yet one…
Phil Jackson,Charley Rosen
Basketball’s most successful coach and its foremost chronicler chart their common pursuit of the purity at the heart of the game. Illustrations.
Commentator, analyst, author, and all-around pro basketball presence, Charley Rosen may seem like a natural, sprung upon the sports scene with the NBA in his blood. And yet how Rosen…
A scout’s iconoclastic views of basketball, love, and American culture.
Ray Scott
A memoir of hard lessons learned in the racially segregated and sometimes outright racist NBA of the early ‘60s by celebrated NBA player and the first Black Coach of the…
