The Golden Age of Amateur Basketball: The AAU Tournament, 1921-1968

by Adolph H. Grundman

Book Overview

Recounts the history of the AAU National Tournament during its golden age, 1921 through 1968. This work analyzes the early tournaments, examining rule changes, key players, and dominant teams. It provides the history of AAU basketball and identifies players and teams that made major contributions to basketball history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803271174
• ISBN13: 9780803271173
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

A sports era preserved in print

The author does an excellent job detailing 40-plus years of amateur basketball history in a long-ago era that preceded today's "all-about-money" NBA. It is interesting to note that many of the great players of that time wound up with successful careers working for the companies for which they played basketball--Denver Central Bankers, Akron Goodyears, Peoria Caterpillars, Bartlesville Phillips 66,etc. As one who grew up watching those teams, I have to think that sports today would better off today with the old National Industrial Basketball League than the $100 million contracts we now have.