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EDITORIAL REVIEW
RE, The book "Wheelchairs Can Jump : A History of Wheelchair Basketball" (978-0984733309, ASIN=0984733302).
Wheelchairs Can Jump focuses on the popular sport of wheelchair basketball, its ascendance from a sport invented in USA Veterans Administration hospitals as a form of recreation and rehabilitation. Currently, it is possibly the most highly organized, independent, and popular international team sport for persons with a disability ... a competitive, highly skilled, aesthetically pleasing sport.
The authors stated purpose ... to organize the "go-to source ' for information on wheelchair basketball ... the sport's 60-year history, the evolution of playing rules, equipment, tactics, and how the game influenced and was influenced by the dynamics of the civil rights movement for persons with a disability.
The book addresses the long-argued question - where the game was invented, in the USA veterans hospitals or in England. It reveals which team played the first wheelchair basketball game in the USA... This is the most comprehensive book detailing the history and development of wheelchair basketball. It is a blockbuster.
The authors are individuals who lived in and led the sport during the last four decades of the 20th century. ... They succeeded in presenting ... the dynamics and passions that drove and shaped the sport as it is constituted today. The book is replete with "Tip's Editorial Commentary" which brings focus to several sections of the book.
The book should be in the library of any university that has professional preparation courses in physical education, recreation, special education, social work or rehabilitation.
Authored by Robert J. Szyman Ph.D., published in the spring (2012) issue of the Illinois Journal for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.- Illinois Journal for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
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- PublisherAcanthus Publishing
- ISBN 10 0984733302
- ISBN 13 9780984733309
- BindingHardcover
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