The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
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.
Liked The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine Shares sports, basketball, nonfiction -
Heaven Is a Playground Shares sports, basketball, nonfiction -
The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty Shares sports, basketball, nonfiction -
Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for Its Soul Shares sports, basketball, nonfiction
“People who read The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams tend to reach for these next.”
“If you want more of the same (biography about sports), start with these.”
-
The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds
-
A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour
- Wait Till Next Year: The Story of a Season When What Should've Happened Didn't, and What Could've Gone Wrong Did
-
The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy
“If it was the sports that hooked you, try one of these.”
-
The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
-
On These Courts
-
Four Corners: How UNC, N.C. State, Duke, and Wake Forest Made North Carolina the Center of the Basketball Universe
-
Rise and Fire: The Origins, Science, and Evolution of the Jump Shot--and How It Transformed Basketball Forever
