Soul of the Game: Images & Voices of Street Basketball

by John C. Jay, John Huet, Jimmy Smith

Soul of the Game is the soul of basketball, a celebration in images and voices that captures the players, the games, the shots, and the moves of the urban playground. From John Huet, the premier sports photographer who brought his look to the Nike "Trash Talk" ads, here are 100 powerful black-and-white, large-format portraits of Arkansas Red, Jackie Jackson, Nate Archibald, and Earl "The Goat" Manigault, playing on the most famous courts from Rucker Park in New York to Crenshaw High in L.A. Soul of the Game is a passionate tribute to streetball, as it's better known-a game played with hustle, flair, attitude, and athleticism. Poetry and hip-hop writing from the players themselves fill in this street hoops history with personal insights.

Genres: Sports

148 pages, Hardcover

First published January 10, 1997

About the author

John Clarkson Jay (1808-1891)

Reviews

[Irvington Public Library Teens · Rating 5 out of 5]

Slam dunk photography and poems! -- Steve Fondiller, Teen Librarian

[Jon Kapp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Soul of the Game delivers on its name. The game is more diverse that what we see here, but the book leaves you with a good image of street basketball in the US.