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Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree - My Basketball Odyssey (Paperback): Sheldon Anderson

Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree - My Basketball Odyssey (Paperback)

Sheldon Anderson

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Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree chronicles Sheldon Anderson's basketball career from grade school in small-town Moorhead, Minnesota, in the 1960s, to inner-city high school and college ball in Minneapolis, to a professional career in West Germany, and finally to communist Poland, where he did PhD research while on a basketball junket behind the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s. Because he was the only American player in the league at the time, and with help from a Polish scholar, Anderson was one of the first Western scholars to gain access to Communist Party documents. He's also likely the only American scholar to have funded his research by playing semi-pro basketball in a communist country. Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree is much more than a basketball story. Anderson provides insights into the everyday lives of people on either side of the Iron Curtain, such as the English coach he played for in West Germany, an elderly woman he visited many times in East Germany, and a sailmaker's family he lived with in Warsaw. He reflects on German, Polish, and Cold War history, providing a commentary on the times and the places where he lived and played, and the importance of basketball along the way.

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Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2021
Authors: Sheldon Anderson
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-1-4962-2648-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Sport
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Basketball
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > Biography > Sport
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LSN: 1-4962-2648-8
Barcode: 9781496226488

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