| Raise Your Hoop I.Q. Fundraising Products |
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| By participating in the Raise Your Hoop I.Q. Fundraiser you will be able to use these products to learn about the history of basketball while raising funds for your team. |
| Click here to read what Congress has to say about these great basketball pioneers. |
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Item 1
On the Shoulders of Giants
Audio Documentary CD
$24.95 (Includes Shipping & Handling) |
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Join famed sports commentator Bob Costas and the NBA's all-time leading scorer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, on an audio and musical journey through the early history of professional basketball. In the early 20th Century, basketball was, like other aspects of American life, a segregated field. Black professional teams were excluded from competition. This bias, however, did not keep black pros from developing powerful teams that were instrumental in making the game evolve and become popular. On the Shoulders of Giants is the story of the greatest basketball team you've never heard of...the Harlem Rens. It is our privilege and great desire to introduce you to these first professional champions of basketball. Listen as award winning sportscaster Bob Costas recounts their remarkable story. Along the way, you'll be eavesdropping on Kareem's private conversations with Hall of Fame legends Dr. J., Bill Russell, Jerry West, James Worthy, Clyde Drexler, Charles Barkley, and legendary UCLA Coach John Wooden. You will also hear from some of today's NBA players such as Lamar Odom, Luke Walton, Ronnie Turiaf and Michael Redd.
2.5 hours • 2 CD Set
Click here to listen to an audio sample. |
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Item 2
On the Shoulders of Giants
Audio Documentary CD & Hardcover Book
Plus Free Large Skyhook T-Shirt
$49.95 (Includes Shipping & Handling)
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| In addition to the audio book, you will also receive a hardcover book of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's latest best seller. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is committed to leaving a legacy well beyond the basketball court. In his book On the Shoulders of Giants, the NBA's All-Time Leading Scorer pays tribute to the black artists, activists, athletes, and intellectuals whose lives have shaped - and continue to shape - his own. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with coauthor Raymond Obstfeld, views American history and his own life through the lens of the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black culture that took place in New York City after World War I. On the Shoulders of Giants celebrates the lives of such influential individuals as James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois and many other people who were the catalysts to the Civil Rights Movement. You will meet the athletes of the Harlem Renaissance and discover the extraordinary history of the first world-championship basketball team, the New York Renaissance Big Five. This book is a thoroughly accessible and engaging mix of memoir and cultural history. Charismatic and controversial Harlem Renaissance leader Marcus Garvey stated, "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots." |
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