Martha S Vineyard Basketball

Author : Bijan C. Bayne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781442238978

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Martha's Vineyard Basketball by Bijan C. Bayne Pdf

Year round on Martha’s Vineyard Island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, residents and vacationers have played basketball—almost since the game was invented. The Oak Bluffs summer league on the Island was innovative, ethnically diverse, welcomed female players, and fostered thousands of friendships. President Obama, NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving, and Family Matters sitcom star Jaleel White have all played basketball on Martha’s Vineyard, as did future college stars, authors, war heroes, and entrepreneurs. Their stories touch current events from World War I through the Civil Rights Movement—and even include the filming of the blockbuster Jaws. Martha’s Vineyard Basketball: How a Resort League Defied Notions of Race and Class follows the rich history of basketball on the Island and tells the stories of the players and coaches themselves. During the heyday of Martha’s Vineyard basketball in the 1970s and ‘80s, the courts provided a place for friendships that looked past social class and race—a unique situation given that nearby cities such as Boston were sites of violent demonstrations against integration. Original interviews with those who were there not only reveal the racial dynamics on Martha’s Vineyard, but also relate amusing anecdotes of encounters with celebrities that include Charles Lindbergh, James Cagney, Frank Sinatra, and future star James Taylor. Martha’s Vineyard Basketball reveals little-known aspects of the Island, shares the realities and triumphs of residents and vacationers alike, and demonstrates the unifying power of basketball. New Englanders, basketball fans, and those interested in race and class relations will all find this book a noteworthy account of a singular place.

Author : James Naismith
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803283709

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Basketball by James Naismith Pdf

James Naismith was teaching physical education at the Young Men's Christian Association Training College in Springfield, Massachusetts, and felt discouraged because calisthenics and gymnastics didn't engage his students. What was needed was an indoor wintertime game that combined recreation and competition. One evening he worked out the fundamentals of a game that would quickly catch on. Two peach half-bushel baskets gave the name to the brand new sport in late 1891. Basketball: Its Origin and Development was written by the inventor himself, who was inspired purely by the joy of play. Naismith, born in northern Ontario in 1861, gave up the ministry to preach clean living through sport. He describes Duck on the Rock, a game from his Canadian childhood, the creative reasoning behind his basket game, the eventual refinement of rules and development of equipment, the spread of amateur and professional teams throughout the world, and the growth of women's basketball (at first banned to male spectators because the players wore bloomers). Naismith lived long enough to see basketball included in the Olympics in 1936. Three years later he died, after nearly forty years as head of the physical education department at the University of Kansas. This book, originally published in 1941, carries a new introduction by William J. Baker, a professor of history at the University of Maine, Orono. He is the author of Jesse Owens: An American Life and Sports in the Western World.

Author : Clyde L. MacKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Basketball
ISBN : 1532345658

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Martha's Vineyard by Clyde L. MacKenzie Pdf

Author : Chris Herren,Bill Reynolds
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429924146

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Basketball Junkie by Chris Herren,Bill Reynolds Pdf

In his own words, former NBA and overseas pro Chris Herren tells how he nearly lost everything and everyone he loved, and how he found a way back to life. Powerful, honest, and dramatic, this remarkable memoir,Basketball Junkie, is harrowing in its descent, and heartening in its return. I was dead for thirty seconds. That's what the cop in Fall River told me. When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat. At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's and the city's dreams on his skinny frame. His grandfather, father, and older brother had created their own sports legends in a declining city; he was the last, best hope for a career beyond the shuttered mills and factories. Herren was heavily recruited by major universities, chosen as a McDonald's All-American, featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story, and at just seventeen years old became the central figure in Fall River Dreams, an acclaimed book about the 1994 Durfee team's quest for the state championship. Leaving Fall River for college, Herren starred on Jerry Tarkanian's Fresno State Bulldogs team of talented misfits, which included future NBA players as well as future convicted felons. His gritty, tattooed, hip-hop persona drew the ire of rival fans and more national attention: Rolling Stone profiled him, 60 Minutes interviewed him, and the Denver Nuggets drafted him. When the Boston Celtics acquired his contract, he lived the dream of every Massachusetts kid—but off the court Herren was secretly crumbling, as his alcohol and drug use escalated and his life spiraled out of control. Twenty years later, Chris Herren was married to his high-school sweetheart, the father of three young children, and a heroin junkie. His basketball career was over, consumed by addictions; he had no job, no skills, and was a sadly familiar figure to those in Fall River who remembered him as a boy, now prowling the streets he once ruled, looking for a fix. One day, for a time he cannot remember, he would die.

Author : Thomas Dresser
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625849045

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Martha's Vineyard by Thomas Dresser Pdf

Martha's Vineyard is cherished by many as a summer paradise, but few know of its rich past. Descendants of the first Native American inhabitants still reside on the Vineyard. Once a critical whaling hub, the island's success drew in newcomers from around the world. Following the Civil War, land developers set their sights on attracting tourists to the island's scenic beaches, and soon thereafter, a visit from President Grant established Martha's Vineyard as a vacation haven. From a movement to secede from Massachusetts to the making of the summer blockbuster Jaws, author Thomas Dresser weaves together the threads of the Vineyard's fascinating history. Discover how this remarkable island adapted to the times and came to be one of the most sought-out vacation destinations on the East Coast.

Author : A. Bowdoin Van Riper,Martha’s Vineyard Museum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439664247

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Edgartown by A. Bowdoin Van Riper,Martha’s Vineyard Museum Pdf

Founded in 1642 as Great Harbor, Edgartown is the oldest of Martha's Vineyard's six townships. It has been a shire town and a center of learning, a whaling port and a fishing village, a manufacturing center and a mecca for sportsmen. Its gleaming captain's houses and majestic public buildings are a testament to the wealth that whaling brought to the island in the mid-1800s, but the end of New England whaling was far from the end of its story. Faced with the loss of the industry that had sustained it, Edgartown reinvented itself as a summer-centered community of resort hotels, bathing beaches, and genteel vacation homes. It welcomed the world to its shores and became an unlikely cultural icon--a backdrop to a best-selling memoir, a political scandal, and a blockbuster film--famous for being its inimitable self.

Author : Skip Finley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467143974

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Historic Tales of Oak Bluffs by Skip Finley Pdf

Skip Finley's Town of Oak Bluffs columns in the Vineyard Gazette were widely popular thanks to his breezy style and historical content. In this curated collection, he presents a chronological telling of how the community became the welcoming seaside resort for a uniquely diverse group of residents and visitors, including five American presidents. Discover how islanders like Ichabod Norton, Old Harry and Lucy Vincent Smith helped to define the island we know today. From the Panic of 1873 to the Inkwell and beyond, these witty and whimsical tales prove why this particular spot is featured in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Fodor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : Cape Cod (Mass.)
ISBN : 9781400017348

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Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard 2007 by Fodor's Pdf

Sketches Cape Cod's history, describes sights and tourist attractions in the area, and recommends hotels and restaurants.

Author : Clair Bee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Basketball
ISBN : IND:30000129776450

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The Clair Bee Basketball Library by Clair Bee Pdf

Author : Clair Francis Bee,Ken Norton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Basketball
ISBN : UCSC:32106009122885

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The Bee-Norton Basketball Series by Clair Francis Bee,Ken Norton Pdf

Author : Jordan Sprechman,Bill Shannon
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1571672540

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This Day in New York Sports by Jordan Sprechman,Bill Shannon Pdf

While not a 'picture book' in the traditional sense. This Day in New York Sports is a bit of a family photo album. It is the album of the family of New York sports over more than 150 years as expressed by a series of daily entries on each day of the year. Within the book you'll find famous members of the family and also those little noted nor long remembered. Day by day as you scroll through the years, you will be introduced (or may be re-introduced) to the names who made New York sports one of the most interesting and compelling dramas in the social history of America for the last century and a half.

Author : Clair Bee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89003147105

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The Clair Bee Basketball Library: The science of coaching; v.2. Basketball fundamentals and techniques; v.3. Individual and team basketball drills; v.4. Man-to-man defense and attack; v.5. Zone defense and attack by Clair Bee Pdf

Author : Thomas Dresser
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467152662

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Martha's Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties by Thomas Dresser Pdf

The Roaring Twenties were filled with a range of events, experiences, fears, laws and advances that impacted Martha's Vineyard. Island residents were involved in rumrunning. Dozens died of the Spanish Flu. Women voted on Island. Dorothy West joined the Harlem Renaissance. Immigration from the Azores slowed, and airplanes landed in Katama. Tourism blossomed and business boomed. Local author Thomas Dresser shares the back story and the import of this remarkable decade and how it has shaped Vineyarders.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Diabetes
ISBN : PURD:32754081252912

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Gen 7 by Anonim Pdf

"A magazine to help American Indian and Alaska Native teens prevent and manage diabetes"--No. 1, July 2008, p. 4.

Author : Thomas Dresser; Foreword by Nancy Gardella, Director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467143370

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Rise of Tourism on Martha's Vineyard, The by Thomas Dresser; Foreword by Nancy Gardella, Director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce Pdf

Now known as a resort community and vacation destination, Martha's Vineyard was once a simple fishing and whaling community. From the popularity of the Methodist Campground, founded in 1835, the Vineyard soon blossomed into a summer vacation mecca, welcoming visitors to its quaint villages and scenic seashores. As whaling lost its economic dominance, tourism became the catalyst for a revived prosperity on the Vineyard. President Grant's visit to the Vineyard in 1874 drew national attention and marked the beginning of several presidential visits to the island. By 1900, Oak Bluffs had developed an amusement park atmosphere with the iconic Flying Horses, toboggan slide and grand seaside hotels. Join local historian Tom Dresser as he reveals the island's transformation into a premier tourist destination.