By the grace of the game : the Holocaust, a basketball legacy, and an unprecedented American dream
(2021)
By:
Grunfeld, Dan
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
796.323092/GRUNFELD,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chicago, Illinois : Triumph Books, [2021]
©2021
©2021
DESCRIPTION
xix, 263 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781629379227, 1629379220 :, 1629379220, 9781629379227
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction: What matters most & why -- Life & the city game -- Auschwitz & a spoon -- the Garden & beasts -- Soup & Nazis -- Seeds & the farm -- Eichman & Wallenberg -- A tic & the clock -- Gypsies & Transylvania -- Mind & body -- Smugglers & icon -- Pain & progress -- Death & basketball -- An accident & Larry Bird -- The store & a beating -- Germany now & then -- King & queens -- Ring & run -- Mettle & gold -- Milk & honey -- End & the association -- Now & when
"This book details a family's unique story from escaping the Holocaust to landing in America to playing in the NBA"--