In 1951, sport and greed combined to rock college basketball with scandal and shatter the lives of those involved. Big Mantells the fictional story of one player sent tumbling in the shakedown. For Mack Davis, a black All-American basketball star, the point-fixing scandals represent the end of a dream. Fallen from the big time, Mack must return to the lost schoolyards of his childhood Brooklyn neighborhood, where he is now stopped cold by the sport that once saved him. Gradually, however, Mack's real love for the game, ...
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In 1951, sport and greed combined to rock college basketball with scandal and shatter the lives of those involved. Big Mantells the fictional story of one player sent tumbling in the shakedown. For Mack Davis, a black All-American basketball star, the point-fixing scandals represent the end of a dream. Fallen from the big time, Mack must return to the lost schoolyards of his childhood Brooklyn neighborhood, where he is now stopped cold by the sport that once saved him. Gradually, however, Mack's real love for the game, combined with a series of unexpected pressures, goads him into an ironic comeback -- playing on an all-black team for a B'nai B'rith championship in a local Brooklyn synagogue with a cast of unlikely heroes and friends. A tight, jabbing novel that moves with the speed and hard grace of basketball itself, BIG MAN puts Jay Neugeboren among the surprisingly tiny company of fiction writers who have captured the essence of the athlete as a human being (Kansas City Star).
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Add this copy of Big Man to cart. $2.93, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Harper Perennial.
Add this copy of Big Man to cart. $7.99, fair condition, Sold by CatTale's Books & Gifts rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brainerd, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Good- in G- jacket. G-hb in tan boards, g-dj, some shelf wear to cover edges and spine ends, name on cover page and back page, pages lightly yellowed, text clean.
Add this copy of Big Man to cart. $11.80, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2001 by Houghton Mifflin.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. A bit of soiling along the topedge, near fine in a price-clipped (price in dollars remains), very good dust jacket a couple of creased tears, bumped spine ends and corners, light foxing and a few stains along the flap edges and the interior.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Inscribed by Author(s) 1966 Houghton Mifflin FIRST Edition with a lovely inscription and signature by Neugeboren on the ffep. In VG+/Vg condition and a very elusive signed first. The HB is very clean and tight. The DJ has minor wear and tiny tears along the edges, corners and spine ends.
