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Billy "the Hill" and the Jump Hook: The Autobiography of a Forgotten Basketball Legend(English)

Billy "the Hill" and the Jump Hook: The Autobiography of a Forgotten Basketball Legend(English)

          
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Growing up on the hardscrabble streets of LA in the late 1950s, Billy McGill stood out. At eleven he was dunking. At fifteen he was playing in pickup games against Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain-and holding his own, in part because he invented the jump hook shot, which no one could defend. How he went from college phenom, well on his way to becoming the greatest player Los Angeles ever produced, to sleeping in abandoned houses and washing up in a Laundromat sink is the story Billy “the Hill” McGill recounts here.  The first African American to play basketball for the University of Utah and the highest scoring big man in NCAA history, McGill was the first pick of the 1962 NBA draft. But the injury that would undo him-a knee injury in his junior year of high school-had already occurred, and it would worsen year after year until his career faded away. From college star (whose scoring record is still unbroken) to troubled player, bouncing around the NBA and the ABA, McGill takes us from the heights to his precipitous fall-and the slow recovery of a life he had never prepared for. A cautionary tale, written with a candor and authenticity rarely seen in pro athletes, his book is also the incredible story of one of the greatest unknown basketball players of all time.

Table of Contents:
Preface Prologue 1. The Beginning 2. Welcome to LA 3. Introduction to the Game 4. The First Day of the Rest of My Life 5. Things Come Together; Things Fall Apart 6. The Hill 7. The Shot 8. The Other Shot 9. Road to Recovery 10. Road to Recovery 2 11. Victory 12. Good-bye, LA 13. "No Coloreds" 14. Passing 15. The Needle 16. Sophomore Year 17. Ohio State 18. Tragedy in Triplicate 19. Girls 20. Junior Year 21. One Last Summer 22. Senior Year 23. A Bad Bounce 24. Last Hurrah at Utah 25. Welcome to the Big Leagues, Kid 26. Training Camp 27. Exhibition 28. The Season Begins 29. Good-bye, Zephyrs 30. The Knicks 31. The Heights 32. Thank You; Please Leave 33. All Good Things 34. Can You Come Home Again? 35. In and Out 36. A Glimmer of Hope 37. Second Verse, Ain't Like the First 38. The Last Waltz 39. The Fall 40. Bye-bye, Caddy, Bye-bye 41. Central Booking 42. Don't Call It a Comeback 43. You Can't Go Home Again 44. You Really Can't Go Home Again 45. To the Edge of the World ... 46... and Back 47. So Much for a Hero's Welcome 48. Dear Dad Epilogue Where Are They Now?


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780803246874
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
  • Depth: 32
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 652 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0803246870
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The Autobiography of a Forgotten Basketball Legend
  • Width: 152 mm


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