The Last Shot : City Streets, Basketball Dreams Paperback - 2004
by Darcy Frey
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It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than that — for many young men it represents their only hope of escape from a life of crime, poverty, and despair. In The Last Shot, Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of four of the neighborhood’s most promising players. What they have going for them is athletic talent, grace, and years of dedication. But working against them are woefully inadequate schooling, family circumstances that are often desperate, and the slick, brutal world of college athletic recruitment. Incisively and compassionately written, The Last Shot introduces us to unforgettable characters and takes us into their world with an intimacy seldom seen in contemporary journalism. The result is a startling and poignant expose of inner-city life and the big business of college basketball.
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- Title The Last Shot : City Streets, Basketball Dreams
- Author Darcy Frey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 233
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0618446710I2N00
- ISBN 9780618446711 / 0618446710
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 5.52 x 0.66 in (20.98 x 14.02 x 1.68 cm)
- Reading level 1210
- Library of Congress subjects Basketball - Social aspects - New York, Youth - New York (State) - New York -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004274118
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.323
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Summary
It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than that — for many young men it represents their only hope of escape from a life of crime, poverty, and despair. In The Last Shot, Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of four of the neighborhood’s most promising players. What they have going for them is athletic talent, grace, and years of dedication. But working against them are woefully inadequate schooling, family circumstances that are often desperate, and the slick, brutal world of college athletic recruitment. Incisively and compassionately written, The Last Shot introduces us to unforgettable characters and takes us into their world with an intimacy seldom seen in contemporary journalism. The result is a startling and poignant expose of inner-city life and the big business of college basketball.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL is a massive yellow brick building of ornate stonework and steel-gated windows at the end of Ocean Parkway, a stately, tree-lined boulevard about a mile from the Coney Island projects.
