Mr. Basketball: George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers, and the Birth of the NBA by Schumacher, Michael - 2007-10-30

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NY: Bloomsbury USA, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 317 pages. Schumacher explores the on-court life and legacy of George Mikan, the big man who revolutionized both college and professional basketball as a dominant center in the '40s and '50s and as the American Basketball Association's first commissioner in the 1960s. Several rules in the modern game were enacted to offset 6'10 Mikan's uncommon height advantage at the time: his shot-blocking ability for DePaul University led to the goaltending rule in college basketball in 1943, and his rebounding and scoring for the Minneapolis Lakers prompted the nascent NBA to widen the free-throw lane from six feet to 12 feet in 1951. Wilt Chamberlain described Mikan as the first true superstar of the league, and Shaquille O'Neal, who paid for Mikan's funeral when he died in 2005 in dire financial straits due to the expenses of his health problems, said, Without George Mikan, there is no me. A native of… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2007. Hardback in near fine condition with very good plus dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. Stated 1st US edition, 1st printing with full number line.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

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New York: Bloomsbury, 2007 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author on title page. Black boards, gilt titles on spine, xiv, 317, [1] pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, notes, index. Top corner of front board bumped, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Author's inscription is accompanied by a cartoonish self-portrait. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.