Cool new book just released...The dramatic story of how two legendary players burst on the scene in an NCAA championship that gave birth to modern basketball
Thirty years ago, college basketball was not the sport we know today. Few games were televised nationally and the NCAA tournament had just expanded from thirty-two to forty teams. Into this world came two exceptional players: Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird. Though they played each other only once, in the 1979 NCAA finals, that meeting launched an epic rivalry, transformed the NCAA tournament into the multibillion-dollar event it is today, and laid the groundwork for the resurgence of the NBA.
In When March Went Mad, Seth Davis recounts the dramatic story of the season leading up to that game, as Johnson’s Michigan State Spartans and Bird’s Indiana State Sycamores overcame long odds and great doubts that their unheralded teams could compete at the highest level. Davis also tells the stories of their remarkable coaches, Jud Heathcote and Bill Hodges—who were new to their schools but who set their own paths to build great teams—and he shows how tensions over race and class heightened the drama of the competition. When Magic and Bird squared off in Salt Lake City on March 26, 1979, the world took notice—to this day it remains the most watched basketball game in the history of television—and the sport we now know was born.
AMAZON LINK : http://www.amazon.com/When-March-Went-Mad-Transformed/dp/0805088105
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Dear blogger,
As I surfed your site today, I noticed that you posted a review of Seth Davis’s WHEN MARCH WENT MAD—it is undoubtedly a very good book, but I wanted to recommend another basketball book to you. It’s called THE BREAKS OF THE GAME, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam. Readers follow David on his year-long journey with the 1979 Portland Trail Blazers; it’s an intriguing behind-the-scenes look at the world of professional basketball.
We at Hyperion Books love it so much that we reprinted it this year (it was originally published in 1981)—if you want to read and review THE BREAKS OF THE GAME, I would love to send you a copy. Please email me back with the mailing address at which you would like to receive the book, and I will put one in the mail today!
To read more about the book, visit our site:
http://www.hyperionbooks.com/titlepage.asp?ISBN=1401309720&SUBJECT=Sports
Thanks so much,
Molly Kay Frandson
Hyperion Books
114 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
(917) 661-2095
Molly.K.Frandson.-ND@abc.com
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