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Pistole: Das Leben von Pete Maravich von Krieg, Mark-
by Kriegel, Mark | HC | Good
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0743284976
- Book Title
- Pistol : the Life of Pete Maravich
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- General, Basketball
- Item Weight
- 22.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
0743284976
ISBN-13
9780743284974
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57152730
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pistol : the Life of Pete Maravich
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Basketball
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-051526
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A remarkable book that is the best researched biography yet of this revolutionary basketball player."-- "The Raleigh News and Observer", "Pistol Pete's moves on the basketball court defied the laws of physics. He did things you can't even film. He deserves a biographer with magic powers of his own, and he's found one in Mark Kriegel."-- Will Blythe, author of "To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever", "This is the best sports book I've read in years. The research, the writing, the pace -- it's All-Pro material." -- Terry Pluto, "The Akron Beacon Journal", ""Pistol" is a beautifully written book that captures the soul and inner turmoil of this son and father."-- "The Tennessean", "Mark Kriegel has written the sport's bio equivalent of Maravich on a fast break: dazzling and smart, and, even at 381 pages, over before you knew it." -- "The Wall Street Journal", "I grew up possessed by the legend of 'Pistol' Pete Maravich. I've seen all the great basketball players of my time. I've marveled at the supernatural skills of Michael Jordan, Oscar Roberts, Kareem Abdul-Jabar, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Jerry West, Kobe Bryant -- all of them far greater basketball players than Pistol. Yet none of them could touch the magical, otherworldly qualities he brought to the court -- the genius and wizardry and breathtaking creativity. He could light up a crowd like a match set to gasoline. His game was lordly, inimitable, and he should have been the greatest to ever play the game. This great book by Mark Kriegel will explain why he was not. I never saw a greater or more electrifying basketball player, and the Pistol's is one of the saddest stories ever told. What a book!"-- Pat Conroy, author ofMy Losing SeasonandThe Prince of Tides, ""Pistol" is not just a biography of a transcendent, doomed athlete; it is a mesmerizing tale of a striving, grasping American family as dramatic as myth, of a father and son as intertwined as Daedalus and Icarus. Kriegel has written the rarest of sports books: a fast-paced, through-the-night page-turner. This isn't a slam dunk, it's a tomahawk glass-shatterer. "Pistol" is nothing but sensational."-- Rick Telander, author of "Heaven Is a Playground" and senior sports columnist, "Chicago Sun-Times", ""Pistol" skillfully pulls off the balancing act required of good sports biography. It plays large historical forces (segregation, the rise of televised sports) against the individual magic of its subject." --" New York Magazine", "Like the best journalists, Kriegel has the ability to get out of the way and let a good story tell itself." -- "The Atlanta Journal Constitution", ""Pistol" is a classic American tale wonderfully told. With deep research and a vivid narrative style, Mark Kriegel brings us the joy and sorrow of Pete Maravich, an inimitable basketball player who was both timeless and before his time, an original talent haunted by demons -- his father's and his own."-- David Maraniss, author of "Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero", "I grew up possessed by the legend of 'Pistol' Pete Maravich. I've marveled at the supernatural skills of Michael Jordan, Oscar Robertson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Jerry West, Kobe Bryant -- all of them were greater basketball players than the 'Pistol'. Yet none of them could touch the magical, otherworldly qualities he brought to the court, the genius and wizardry and breathtaking creativity. He could light up a crowd like a match set to gasoline. His game was lordly, inimitable and he should have been the greatest player to ever play the game. This great book by Mark Kriegel will explain why he was not. I never saw a greater or more electrifying basketball player and the 'Pistol's' is one of the saddest stories ever told. What a book!"-- Pat Conroy, bestselling author of "My Losing Season" and "The Prince of Tides"
Dewey Decimal
B
Table Of Content
Contents Prologue One: Special Opportunity Two: Mr. Basketball Three: Pro Ball Four: The Cult of Press Five: Country Gentlemen Six: The Basketball Gene Seven: The Devil in Ronnie Montini Eight: "Pistol Pete" Nine: Changing the Game Ten: The Deep End Eleven: King of the Cow Palace Twelve: Showtime Thirteen: One of Us Fourteen: Marked Man Fifteen: The Blackhawks Sixteen: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Pete Seventeen: Take Me Eighteen: Smothered Nineteen: All That Jazz Twenty: The Loser Twenty-One: Take Me, Part 2 Twenty-Two: Amazing Grace Twenty-Three: Patrimony Notes Acknowledgments Index
Synopsis
Pete Maravich, the basketball virtuoso who battled personal demons off the court, is the focus of this narrative by the bestselling author of "Namath: A Biography." of photos., Pistolis more than the biography of a ballplayer. It's the stuff of classic novels: the story of a boy transformed by his father's dream -- and the cost of that dream. Even as Pete Maravich became Pistol Pete -- a basketball icon for baby boomers -- all the Maraviches paid a price. Now acclaimed author Mark Kriegel has brilliantly captured the saga of an American family: its rise, its apparent ruin, and, finally, its redemption. Almost four decades have passed since Maravich entered the national consciousness as basketball's boy wizard. No one had ever played the game like the kid with the floppy socks and shaggy hair. And all these years later, no one else ever has. The idea of Pistol Pete continues to resonate with young people today just as powerfully as it did with their fathers. In averaging 44.2 points a game at Louisiana State University, he established records that will never be broken. But even more enduring than the numbers was the sense of ecstasy and artistry with which he played. With the ball in his hands, Maravich had a singular power to inspire awe, inflict embarrassment, or even tell a joke. But he wasn't merely a mesmerizing showman. He was basketball's answer to Elvis, a white Southerner who sold Middle America on a black man's game. Like Elvis, he paid a terrible price, becoming a prisoner of his own fame. Set largely in the South, Kriegel'sPistol,a tale of obsession and basketball, fathers and sons, merges several archetypal characters. Maravich was a child prodigy, a prodigal son, his father's ransom in a Faustian bargain, and a Great White Hope. But he was also a creature of contradictions: always the outsider but a virtuoso in a team sport, an exuberant showman who wouldn't look you in the eye, a vegetarian boozer, an athlete who lived like a rock star, a suicidal genius saved by Jesus Christ. A renowned biographer --Peoplemagazine called him "a master" -- Kriegel renders his subject with a style that is, by turns, heartbreaking, lyrical, and electric. The narrative begins in 1929, the year a missionary gave Pete's father a basketball. Press Maravich had been a neglected child trapped in a hellish industrial town, but the game enabled him to blossom. It also caused him to confuse basketball with salvation. The intensity of Press's obsession initiates a journey across three generations of Maraviches. Pistol Pete, a ballplayer unlike any other, was a product of his father's vanity and vision. But that dream continues to exact a price on Pete's own sons. Now in their twenties -- and fatherless for most of their lives -- they have waged their own struggles with the game and its ghosts. Pistolis an unforgettable biography. By telling one family's history, Kriegel has traced the history of the game and a large slice of the American narrative., Pete Maravich, the basketball virtuoso who battled personal demons off the court, is the focus of this narrative by the bestselling author of Namath: A Biography. of photos.
LC Classification Number
GV884.M3K75 2007
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