The Breaks of the Game - Softcover

Halberstam, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345296257 ISBN 13: 9780345296252

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1983

Synopsis

Explores the world of professional basketball and one season with the Portland Trail Blazers, discussing the players, coaches, owners, competition, money, trades, drafts, media, audiences, joys, and sorrows of the sport

About this title

About the Author:

David Halberstam (1934-2007) was the author of twenty-two books, including fifteen bestsellers. Born in New York City, Halberstam spent much of the 1960s as a reporter for The New York Times, covering the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. His Vietnam reporting earned him both a George C. Polk Award and a 1964 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Vanity Fair dubbed Halberstam "the Moses of American journalism," and the subjects of his books reflect his passion and range: war, foreign policy, history, and sports. The Best and the Brightest (1962), his sixth book, a critique of the Kennedy administration's Vietnam policy, became a #1 bestseller. His next book, The Powers that Be, a study of four American media companies, was hailed by The New York Times as a "prodigy of research." Many of Halberstam's books explored themes in professional sports, including bestsellers The Teammates, a portrait of the friendship between baseball players Ted Williams, Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Bobby Doerr, and The Education of a Coach, a profile of New England Patriots' Coach Bill Belichick.

From the Inside Flap:

the best books ever written on professional basketball." The Philadelphia Inquirer

David Halberstam, best-selling author of THE FIFTIES and THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST, turns his keen reporter's eye on the sport of basketball -- the players and the coaches, the long road trips, what happens on court, in front of television cameras, and off-court, where no eyes have followed -- until now.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0345296257
• ISBN 13: 9780345296252
• Binding: Paperback