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Quick pivot; stories of basketball

by Phyllis R. Fenner · 1965

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Eleven stories of action on the basketball court, including one about a player under the pressure of carrying on his predecessor's winning leadership, and another about Mrs. O'Leary's cow Buttercup, the Chicago fire, and the beginnings of basketball.

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