Heaven Is a Playground: A Journey Into the Sweet World of Street Basketball

by Rick Telander

Book Overview

"The best basketball book I've ever read." --Barack Obama

Heaven Is a Playground, now in its fifth edition to include more information on Fly Williams, was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683583604
• ISBN13: 9781683583608
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"