Skyline: One Season, One Team, One City

by Tim Keown

Book Overview

Every year, the Oakland Athletic League is home to some of the best high school basketball in the nation. It is also a place where basketball games clash with gang turf wars, and players struggle not... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0025623052
• ISBN13: 9780025623057
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Awesome.

I don't even know if this book is in prin anymore but, if it is, any sports fan should read it. It is similar to Friday Night Lights, The Last Shot, The Right Kind of Heroes and several books that have been written following one high school team through one year of their season. This chronicles one inner city high school team from Oakalnd and their quest to win the city championship. It follows everything surrounding the players-the one being recruited by every major college football program in the country, the lone whote player in the entire league, the up and coming superstar, the thug hoping to get his life straightened out...this book has it all. It is amazing that the author was given the access to these obviously skeptical players lives that he was and the way he details it is captivating beyond words.

Must read for parents of future high school kids.

This book is a must read for any youth coach of any sport and for any parent thinking of sending a kid to a inner city public high school. Filled with facts and statistics of graduation rates, medium grade point averages and anecdotal stories of tough young lives. If you're at all interested in why the Afican American young male has so many chips stacked against him from day one then read this book.