{"product_id":"black-ball-kareem-abdul-jabbar-spencer-haywood-and-the-generation-that-saved-the-soul-of-the-nba-paperback","title":"Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTheresa Runstedtler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for the supposed decline of pro-basketball, citing drugs, violence, and greed. Basketball became a symbol for post-civil rights America: the rules had changed, allowing more Black people onto the playing field, and now they were ruining everything. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Enter \u003ci\u003eBlack Ball\u003c\/i\u003e, a gripping corrective in which scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball's \"Dark Ages.\" Weaving together a deep knowledge of the game with incisive social analysis, Runstedtler argues that this much-maligned period was pivotal to the rise of the modern-day NBA. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheresa Runstedtler \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of African American history at American University and is the author of \u003ci\u003eJack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2013 Phillis Wheatley Book Prize from the Northeast Black Studies Association. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 08, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53460118307123,"sku":"9781645036975","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/V1WTyaO_9W9781645036975.webp?v=1783029933","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/black-ball-kareem-abdul-jabbar-spencer-haywood-and-the-generation-that-saved-the-soul-of-the-nba-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}