Playgrounds to the Pros
Legends of Peoria Basketball
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Product details:
- Edition number First Edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 7 February 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780252086939
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 229x152x20 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 black & white photographs 277
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Long description:
Howard Nathan. A. J. Guyton. Sergio McClain. Marcus Griffin. Frank Williams. Shaun Livingston. This dazzling constellation of talent helped make Peoria a prep basketball hotbed from the 1980s to the 2000s. Jeff Karzen takes readers inside the lives of the players, coaches, and others who defined an era that produced six state titles and four Illinois Mr. Basketball winners.
Drawing on dozens of in-depth interviews, Karzen tells the stories behind the on-court triumphs while providing a panorama of the entire Peoria scene--the rivalries and relationships, the families and friendships, the hopes and hard work. Karzen also follows the players into their Division 1 and NBA careers and pays special attention to the pipeline that, by connecting Peoria to Champaign-Urbana, powered one of the most successful periods in Fighting Illini basketball history.
Intense and intimate, Playgrounds to the Pros chronicles a basketball golden age in America’s quintessential blue collar town.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Anatomy of a Basketball Town
Chapter 2. Prince of Peoria
Chapter 3. Mayor of the South Side
Chapter 4. Legends, Titles, and University of Illinois Pipeline
Chapter 5. How the Seeds of Struggle Were Planted
Chapter 6. Tragedy of Mud
Chapter 7. Finding Oscar Mack
Chapter 8. First Family of Peoria Central
Chapter 9. Shaun Livingston and the Burden of Expectations
Interviews
Index
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