03011cam a2200433 4500 860849503 TxAuBib 20230620120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781549158483 1549158481 2973ab12-442a-4ffc-89df-8b3cb6111f22 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9091919 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Runstedtler, Theresa. Black Ball [OverDrive] : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA. Hachette Audio, 2023. basketball. Basketball players. NBA. kareem abdul-jabbar. black athletes. Basketball History. 1970s culture. National Basketball Association. antiblackness. american sports history. black sports history. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 302MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 302MB. Sociology. Sports & Recreations. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA</b><br /> Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league then, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for the supposed decline of pro basketball, citing drugs, violence, and greed. Basketball became a symbol for post-civil rights America: the rules had changed, allowing more Black people onto the playing field, and now they were ruining everything.</p>Enter <i>Black Ball</i>, a gripping history and corrective in which scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball's "Dark Ages." Weaving together a deep knowledge of the game with incisive social analysis, Runstedtler argues that this much-maligned period was pivotal to the rise of the modern-day NBA. Black players introduced an improvisational style derived from the playground courts of their neighborhoods. They also challenged the team owners' autocratic power, garnering higher salaries and increased agency. Their skills, style, and savvy laid the foundation for the global popularity and profitability of the league we know today. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-06-19 20:00:03. Willacey, Xenia. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2973ab12-442a-4ffc-89df-8b3cb6111f22&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2973ab12-442a-4ffc-89df-8b3cb6111f22&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)