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Bob Cousy
More than 100 Pages Filled with Riveting Facts on Basketball Hall of Fame Inductees with Information That Will Never Go Out of Date Basketball Hall of Famers is an exciting sports biography series that provides an in-depth look at some of the greatest all-around players the hardwood has ever seen, with information that will never go out of date. Absorbing accounts of their lives, featuring highlights from each player's childhood to his professional NBA career and beyond, are profiled. Young people of all ages will find themselves attracted to these colorful books that are overflowing with action photographs of the stars at their best.
112 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 2001
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About the author
Rob Kirkpatrick
51 books16 followersROB KIRKPATRICK is the author of 1969: The Year Everything Changed (Skyhorse Publishing), Magic in the Night: The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen (St. Martin’s Griffin) and Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators: The War-Torn History of an All-Star Shortstop (Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press). He also edited The Quotable Sixties, and his creative writing has been published by Aethlon and Slow Trains.
As an editor for more than a decade, he has published such titles as Mark Oliver Everett’s Things the Grandchildren Should Know, John Hemingway’s Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir, G. Franco and Gwen Romagnolis’ Italy, the Romagnoli Way, Linda Cohn’s Cohn-Head: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys’ Club, Phil Pepe’s The Ballad of Billy and George: The Tempestuous Baseball Marriage of Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner, Vincent Cannato’s The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York, Mark K. Updegrove’s Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis, Alex Storozynski’s The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, Timothy M. Gay’s Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend, John Pahigian’s The Ultimate Minor League Road Trip and 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out, Sean Lahman’s The Pro Football Historical Abstract, Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon’s Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends, & Eerie Events, and The Devil’s Diaries. He also conceived of and published multivolume reference sets including the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History and the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures.
Rob received his B.A. from Rutgers University, his M.A. from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and his PhD. from Binghamton University. He is graduate of the Denver Publishing Institute and also spent a summer studying at the FAMU in Prague. He taught writing and literature courses on the college level for four years and currently is a Senior Editor with Thomas Dunne Books. In his “free time,” he enjoys yoga and plays on the Bridgeport Orators Vintage Base Ball team. Rob lives in Rye, New York.
Rob Kirkpatrick is represented by Joy Tutela of the David Black Literary Agency.
Contact Rob at rob@robkirkpatrick.com.
As an editor for more than a decade, he has published such titles as Mark Oliver Everett’s Things the Grandchildren Should Know, John Hemingway’s Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir, G. Franco and Gwen Romagnolis’ Italy, the Romagnoli Way, Linda Cohn’s Cohn-Head: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys’ Club, Phil Pepe’s The Ballad of Billy and George: The Tempestuous Baseball Marriage of Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner, Vincent Cannato’s The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York, Mark K. Updegrove’s Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis, Alex Storozynski’s The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, Timothy M. Gay’s Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend, John Pahigian’s The Ultimate Minor League Road Trip and 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out, Sean Lahman’s The Pro Football Historical Abstract, Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon’s Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends, & Eerie Events, and The Devil’s Diaries. He also conceived of and published multivolume reference sets including the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History and the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures.
Rob received his B.A. from Rutgers University, his M.A. from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and his PhD. from Binghamton University. He is graduate of the Denver Publishing Institute and also spent a summer studying at the FAMU in Prague. He taught writing and literature courses on the college level for four years and currently is a Senior Editor with Thomas Dunne Books. In his “free time,” he enjoys yoga and plays on the Bridgeport Orators Vintage Base Ball team. Rob lives in Rye, New York.
Rob Kirkpatrick is represented by Joy Tutela of the David Black Literary Agency.
Contact Rob at rob@robkirkpatrick.com.
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December 10, 2015
The book I currently finished is called Bob Cousy and the author, [who is a great one] is Rob Kirkpatrick. The author tells you about Cousy’s life and his legendary career with the NBA [national basketball association] Boston Celtics which is located in Massachusetts. My favorite character in this book is Cousy because not only is he the main character, he reminds me of me, a person who didn’t have natural talent,me and Cousy had/have to work hard for everything that we achieved/achieving.
Cousy lived a life of poverty in New York city before moving to Albans, a place that his mother, Juliet was exited about, then she said, ‘’This place is for us, we’ll be happy here’’. She was happy at Albans, but was Cousy? Yes he was. Cousy had open fields to play, made new friends to play Baseball with him. In high school because he fell of a tree and broke his right arm he was learning to be amadrexous. He would later be one of the best left hand shooter and dribbler who when his arm healed could also shoot and dribble right handed.
I would recommend this book to someone that wants to learn and know what it takes to be good and do what Cousy did, someone who realizes they don’t need naturale talents to be good at basketball.
Cousy lived a life of poverty in New York city before moving to Albans, a place that his mother, Juliet was exited about, then she said, ‘’This place is for us, we’ll be happy here’’. She was happy at Albans, but was Cousy? Yes he was. Cousy had open fields to play, made new friends to play Baseball with him. In high school because he fell of a tree and broke his right arm he was learning to be amadrexous. He would later be one of the best left hand shooter and dribbler who when his arm healed could also shoot and dribble right handed.
I would recommend this book to someone that wants to learn and know what it takes to be good and do what Cousy did, someone who realizes they don’t need naturale talents to be good at basketball.
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