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Playing the Game
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Playing the Game
by
Alan Lelchuk
Inspired half-time readings of Thoreau, Emerson et al., carry an Ivy League basketball team to the NCAA playoffs.
Hardcover, 361 pages
Published
April 1st 1995
by Baskerville Publishers
(first published 1995)
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I was lent this by my daughter's history teacher on the assumption that, since I am interested in both basketball and history, this would be interesting. I love the premise - an obscure history professor and assistant basketball coach at an Ivy League college gets appointed as head coach, with nobody expecting much. By recruiting disadvantaged youth and reading passages of American history to them, he brings the team to the NCAA finals.
It should work, but it doesn't. The character is not believa...more
It should work, but it doesn't. The character is not believa...more
Dec 28, 2011
Thomas Davis
marked it as on-my-shelf-now
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