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Transition Game: How Hoosiers Went Hip-Hoop
Through the lens of Indiana basketball--once known as the cradle of Larry Bird and Gene Hackman's Hoosiers, now as the land of Ron Artest and a flashy, urban game--the story of how basketball became the hip-hop sport, and why that's not a bad thing, by the award-winning Sports Illustrated writer and Indiana native.
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
February 28th 2006
by Riverhead Trade
(first published 2005)
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I read this book in one night. The experience was actually therapeutic. "Oh! So that's why I am the way I am! It's because I grew up in Indiana!" It is near about impossible to talk about race and sports, but Wertheim does an admirable job here. When I hear people talk about how much "the game has changed," it's often code for how "it's devolved," or "things aren't like they used to be now that the game is so black." Wertheim examines this huge subject by ...more
This book was very uneven. In trying to tell so many disparate stories, linked only by their connection to the state of Indiana, the author wasn't able to generate sufficient interest in any individual story to drive the narrative. Some stories were very interesting, others were not. Most frustrating was the feeling that the author wrote whole sections with a thesaurus close at hand. I'll never understand why people in sports feel the need to show off their vocabularies by frequently misusing bi...more
fun to read because I knew some of the people and teams mentioned.
It dated itself quickly but otherwise a very good book.
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