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Going up (from Monroe, Louisiana) for glory is what Bill Russell does on a basketball court. His specialty, grabbing rebounds and blocking shots, has established him as the best defensive player in basketball history. He's the super-star of the phenomenally successful Boston Celtics. But it's not all glory. Russell is a proud and sensitive Negro and has quite a lot to say about discrimination. He says it quite candidly and warns readers that this is ""...not a friendship diary."" He characterizes basketball as ""... high-speed applied psychiatry,"" and whether he is discussing sport or race prejudice, he speaks convincingly in a direct style. The book goes beyond the initial basketball enthusiast market and bears no relationship to the Good-Negro-Athlete-Makes-Good school of autobiography. Russell offers some commonsense about the uncommon hardships of being a celebrity Negro moving through cross-sections of American society and growing as an athlete and an individual.
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- PublisherCoward, McCann & Geoghegan
- Publication date1966
- ISBN 10 0425021629
- ISBN 13 9780425021620
- BindingUnknown Binding
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Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1966
ISBN 10: 0425021629
ISBN 13: 9780425021620
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. "Here is the exciting, action-filled autobiography of Bill Russell, basketball superstar of the NBA Champion Boston Celtics, and first Black coach of a major professional sport. This is an outspoken account of his development as a man, athlete, and Black American, recording his determined struggle to make a place for himself in the sport he'd chosen and in the country of his birth.". Seller Inventory # 2410080049
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Berkley Medallion, 1972
ISBN 10: 0425021629
ISBN 13: 9780425021620
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Seller: Antique Mall Books, Smyrna, GA, U.S.A.
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 9th Printing - July 1972 (Berkely Medallion S2162) Owners name on 1st inside page. Binding is tight and square and spine is NOT creased. Gently read . . . . . . Going up (from Monroe, Louisiana) for glory is what Bill Russell does on a basketball court. His specialty, grabbing rebounds and blocking shots, has established him as the best defensive player in basketball history. He's the super-star of the phenomenally successful Boston Celtics. But it's not all glory. Russell is a proud and sensitive Negro and has quite a lot to say about discrimination. He says it quite candidly and warns readers that this is *.not a friendship diary.* He characterizes basketball as *. high-speed applied psychiatry,* and whether he is discussing sport or race prejudice, he speaks convincingly in a direct style. The book goes beyond the initial basketball enthusiast market and bears no relationship to the Good-Negro-Athlete-Makes-Good school of autobiography. Russell offers some commonsense about the uncommon hardships of being a celebrity Negro moving through cross-sections of American society and growing as an athlete and an individual. Seller Inventory # 2401090009
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