Billy the Hill and the Jump Hook: The Autobiography of a Forgotten Basketball Legend

by Billy McGill and Eric Brach

Book Overview

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 Los Angeles ever produced, to sleeping in abandoned houses and washing up...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803246870
• ISBN13: 9780803246874
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"