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Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780870137495
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Michigan STATE University Press
ISBN-10
0870137492
ISBN-13
9780870137495
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44459090
Product Key Features
Book Title
Home Stand : Growing Up in Sports
Number of Pages
196 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General, American / General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Literary Criticism, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-025890
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
If he had not fouled out, maybe Washington State University's center, James McKean, might have held Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) to only forty points. It was 1967, a transition year for college athletics in a dramatic time for those coming ofage. In this memoir set in the 1950s and 1960s, McKean revisits his years growing up in a family dedicated to sports and the outdoors, his playing basketball at Washington State University (for coaches Marv Harshman and Jud Heathcote), and his fashioning a life during and after basketball. Driven by the energy and spirit of athletics, the language in Home Stand lights up McKean's wonderfully eclectic work--the aunt who won a bronze medal in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, his last run as a misguided drag racer, his playing basketball for a washing machine factory in Bologna, Italy, or against the prisoners in Walla Walla State Penitentiary--all seen in the context of turbulent times. Needless to say, Lew Alcindor scored his points and UCLA won, which they did every game that season. What James McKean took home was five fouls and a good story. Home Stand delivers a lyrical, thoughtful reflection of what it is to be an athlete--inside as well as outside the game--and how one man's love of basketball evolved into a love of poetry, "good turns of speech," writing, and teaching., Home Stand delivers a lyrical, thoughtful reflection of what it is to be an athlete--inside as well as outside the game--and how one man's love of basketball evolved into a love of poetry, "good turns of speech," writing, and teaching., If he had not fouled out, maybe Washington State University s center, James McKean, might have held Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) to only forty points. It was 1967, a transition year for college athletics in a dramatic time for those coming ofage. In this memoir set in the 1950s and 1960s, McKean revisits his years growing up in a family dedicated to sports and the outdoors, his playing basketball at Washington State University (for coaches Marv Harshman and Jud Heathcote), and his fashioning a life during and after basketball. Driven by the energy and spirit of athletics, the language in "Home Stand" lights up McKean s wonderfully eclectic work the aunt who won a bronze medal in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, his last run as a misguided drag racer, his playing basketball for a washing machine factory in Bologna, Italy, or against the prisoners in Walla Walla State Penitentiary all seen in the context of turbulent times. Needless to say, Lew Alcindor scored his points and UCLA won, which they did every game that season. What James McKean took home was five fouls and a good story. " Home Stand" delivers a lyrical, thoughtful reflection of what it is to be an athlete inside as well as outside the game and how one man s love of basketball evolved into a love of poetry, "good turns of speech," writing, and teaching."
LC Classification Number
PS3563.C3737M34 2005
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