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Billy "the Hill" and the Jump Hook: The Autobiography of a Forgotten Basketball Legend
by
Billy McGill
,
Eric Brach
(Goodreads Author)
Growing up on the hardscrabble streets of LA in the late 1950s, Billy McGill stood out. At eleven he was dunking. At fifteen he was playing in pickup games against Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain—and holding his own, in part because he invented the jump hook shot, which no one could defend. How he went from college phenom, well on his way to becoming the greatest player
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Hardcover
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328 pages
Published
November 1st 2013
by University of Nebraska Press
(first published January 1st 2013)
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If you enjoy reading about basketball, the tale of Billy McGill helps round out the understanding of his time and place in the basketball universe. While it is peppered with a who's who of basketball, McGill's tale is more than a name-dropping salute to the has-beens. The story of "the Hill" and the jump hook hops across the country from California to Utah to New York to anywhere else that men try to make their way in America through sports. Throughout, it doesn't lose sight of the wholly epheme
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