Basketball Made Simple: A Spectator's Guide (Spectator Guide Series) - Softcover

P.J. Harari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884309038 ISBN 13: 9781884309038

Publisher: First Base Sports, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Harari, P. J., Ominsky, Dave

About this title

About the Author

P.J. Harari and Dave Ominsky co-authored this book while pursuing their MBAs at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. However, it was while working as an attorney prior to enrolling in business school that Harari first came upon the idea for a Spectator Guide. Her clients often conducted business meetings at basketball or hockey games and she spent her time feigning interest or pretending to understand what was going on.Harari went in search of a book of rules hoping to solve her dilemma. Surely the local library would have something, she thought, or perhaps a local bookstore. But she had no luck. She resorted to teaching herself football by watching games on television, weekend after weekend of sitting alone in her living room. Harari did the same with hockey and basketball. And as her expertise grew, she was visited by peers, male and female alike, who would close her office door and quietly confide that they knew nothing about sports and desperately needed or want

Edition details

• Publisher: First Base Sports
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1884309038
• ISBN 13: 9781884309038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132