Bob Bergum eBooks
eBooks di Bob Bergum editi da World Class Basketball Hof
The CHRONICLES of the HOOP 1969 2020. E-book. Formato PDF Bob Bergum - World Class Basketball Hof, 2018 -
This is the end of the third and final chapter, dedicated to the history of basketball without the NBA professionals. It was a dream I had for a long time, but I had never managed to complete it. I am convinced that you will also appreciate it. The basketball is about to enter another dimension of its long path, with the world championships in China next year, and with the Olympic tournament that returns to Tokyo after 56 years. After all, it is a parable that comes to an end in Asia, where the first international championship took place in Manila from 1913. Furthermore, it is as if the times when basketball was being managed by different organizations returned, and today we have at least four at a high level, with USAB, NCAA, FIBA, and EuroLeague. I have put together the best for every four years, but I leave the judgment to you based on your memories or your convictions.
The CHRONICLES of the HOOP 1937 1968. E-book. Formato PDF Bob Bergum - World Class Basketball Hof, 2018 -
This book is the second of three chapters and shows the rapid and furious pop-up of the main competitions in the second half of the 1930s. After the blackout of the WWII, with some excellences in neutral Latin America, in the AAU tournaments in Denver, and the abolition of the 1940 and 1944 Olympic Games, the basketball world resumed in 1946 in Geneva with EuroBasket, and saw in 1947 the birth of the Russian bear. The period is completely covered by the rivalry between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, also in basketball since 1952 at Helsinki. At the end of the 1960s, in 1966 in Santiago and in 1968 in Mexico City there will be the appearance of the Third Way of Belgrade.
The CHRONICLES of the HOOP 1891 1936. E-book. Formato PDF Bob Bergum - World Class Basketball Hof, 2018 -
The first Olympic Championship is a nice demonstration of the passionate effort made by the first olympian basket-ballers, in the muddy clay of a tennis court. The umbrellas are open on the crowd, and the water puddles are glittering. The ball was a lot bigger and heavier than the modern Spaldings, Wilsons, or Moltens, and there was a slit on one side where you put in the bladder. No matter how tight you laced up that opening with rawhide, there was no way to make that ball perfectly round. That, plus the dirt court, made it almost impossible to dribble, even when the ground was dry. Mostly they passed the ball up court anyway and, except for layups, they shot everything two-hand-set, which was what everybody did in those days, but Angelo Luisetti at Galileo High School in Frisco.