Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball

CRITICS HAVE SAID

• Coy’s story about the dawn of basketball in 1891 – offers an interesting account of the factors that went into devising the game.
  The New York Times Book Review

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