TY  - BOOK
AU  - Runstedtler,Theresa
TI  - Black Ball : : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA 
SN  - 9781645036975
U1  - 796.323640973 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Bold Type Books
KW  - Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 
KW  - Haywood, Spencer, 
KW  - National Basketball Association
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African American basketball players
KW  - Biography
KW  - Basketball
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes index
N2  - "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-aligned period was pivotal to the rise of the modern-day NBA."--Page 4 of cover

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