Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
10 best books like Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn (Larry Colton): Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball, 13 Years in America, Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska, A Taste of My Own Medicine: When the Doctor Is the Patient, Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine, Rucker Park Setup, Wrestling Sturbridge, The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens, Shooting Stars, The Shape of the Eye: A Memoir
Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball
| Author | Rafe Bartholomew |
| ISBN | 0451229991 |
Welcome to the Philippines, where the men are five foot five, the everyman's Air Jordans are a pair of flip-flops, and the rhythm of life is punctuated by the bouncing of a basketball.
Rafe Bartholomew arrived in Manila with little more than a Fulbright scholarship and an urban legend that Filipinos...
| Author | Melanie Steele |
| ISBN | 1475215665 |
13 Years in America is a story of hope, sacrifice, and the modern search for happiness that is at once a moving personal journey and a sharp, hard look at the American Dream.
After moving to the United States from Canada, a free-spirited young woman rejects the status quo and embarks on a journey...
| Author | Michael D'Orso |
| ISBN | 1582346232 |
n the tradition of Friday Night Lights, an extraordinary journey into the basketball-crazed culture of remote Arctic Alaska.
The village of Fort Yukon sits eight miles above the Arctic Circle, deep in Alaska's "bush" country. The six hundred men, women and children who live there—almost...
A Taste of My Own Medicine: When the Doctor Is the Patient
| Author | Edward E. Rosenbaum |
| ISBN | 0394562828 |
"A graphic account of what it's like when a doctor crosses to the other side of the table and becomes a patient himself."Parade Magazine
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Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
| Author | George Dohrmann |
| ISBN | 0345508602 |
Eight years of unfettered access, a keen sense of a story’s deepest truths, and a genuine compassion for his subject allow Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Dohrmann to take readers inside the machine that produces America’s basketball stars.
Hoop dreams aren’t just...
| Author | Paul Volponi |
| ISBN | 0670061301 |
“Wow” is all I can say after reading Rucker Park Setup by Paul Volponi. This
book really deserves 5 stars out of 5, no doubt about it. Being a person who
doesn’t like reading, Paul Volponi delivers big, as a writer, with his second
based basketball story after Black and White, showing...
| Author | Rich Wallace |
| ISBN | 0679885552 |
Another interesting sports and character book; small town wrestling team out East is the obsession of the whole town (like football in Odessa/Midland). The place is the kind of town most kids can't wait to leave, and the teenage behavior is pretty accurate - lots of drinking by athletes and cheerleaders,...
| Author | Brooke Hauser |
| ISBN | 1439163286 |
Some walked across deserts and mountains to get here. Others flew in on planes. One arrived after escaping in a suitcase. And some won’t say how they got here.These are “the new kids”: new to America and all the routines and rituals of an American high school, from lonely first days to prom. They...
From the ultimate team—basketball superstar LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August—a poignant, thrilling tale of the power of teamwork to transform young lives, including James’s own
The Shooting Stars were...
| Author | George Estreich |
| ISBN | 0399163344 |
"A poignant, beautifully written, and intensely moving memoir" --Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
"In this wise and moving memoir, George Estreich tells the story of his family as his younger daughter is diagnosed with Down syndrome and they are thrust into an unfamiliar...
| Author | Don Haskins |
| ISBN | 1401307914 |
Timed to the release of Jerry Bruckheimer's movie, the moving autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins and his storied team of players, the Texas Western Miners
In 1966, college basketball was almost completely segregated. In the championship game for the NCAA title that...
| Author | Judy Blunt |
| ISBN | 0375701303 |
Blunt has turned the memories of her childhood and young adulthood in rural Montana into a beautifully written memoir that is a meditation on how land and her life will always be intertwined. A must read.
Born into a third generation of Montana homesteaders, Judy Blunt learned early how to "rope...
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle
| Author | Madeleine Blais |
| ISBN | 0446672106 |
They were a talented team with a near-perfect record. But for five straight years, when it came to the crunch of the playoffs, the Amherst Lady Hurricanes -- a "finesse" high school girls' basketball team of nice girls from a nice town -- somehow lacked the scrappy, hard-driving desire to go all the way....
Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for Its Soul
| Author | Bill Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0312134916 |
In this deeply felt, unforgettable book, Bill Reynolds journeys with a high school basketball team through the past and present of an American town. Fall River, Massachusetts, is a once-prosperous industrial center haunted by its history, the Durfee High School basketball team begins its annual...
Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season
| Author | David Shields |
| ISBN | 0609806661 |
The National Basketball Association is a place where, without ever acknowledging it, white fans and black players enact and quietly explode virtually every racial issue and tension in the culture at large. In Black Planet, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans--including...
The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives
| Author | Neil Swidey |
| ISBN | 1586484699 |
Jack O'Brien, the impossibly demanding basketball coach at Charlestown High School in Boston, has led his team to five state championship titles in six years. Less talked about is O'Brien's other winning record: Nearly every one of the players who stuck with his program--poor kids growing up in high-crime...
The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White
| Author | Doug Merlino |
| ISBN | 1608192156 |
The experiment was dreamed up by two fathers, one white, one black. What would happen, they wondered, if they mixed white players from an elite Seattle private school - famous for alums such as Microsoft's Bill Gates - and black kids from the inner city on a basketball team? Wouldn't exposure to privilege...
The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient
| Author | Sheridan Prasso |
| ISBN | 1586483943 |
Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite — and because of — centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen remain pervasive icons:...
Outside Shot: Big Dreams, Hard Times, and One County's Quest for Basketball Greatness
| Author | Keith O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1250000335 |
"A reporting tour de force and an utterly gripping account… Outside Shot unmistakably triumphs, with the reader rooting hard for the Cardinals—and delighted that O'Brien has brought his considerable skills to telling their story." —Wayne Coffey, New York Times Book Review
The Cardinals...
And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students
| Author | Miles Corwin |
| ISBN | 0380798298 |
Bestselling author of The Killing Season and veteran Los Angeles Times reporter Miles Corwin spent a school year with twelve high school seniors -- South-Central kids who qualified for a gifted program because of their exceptional IQs and test scores. Sitting alongside them in classrooms where bullets...
| Author | Rick Telander |
| ISBN | 0803294530 |
In 1974 Rick Telander intended to spend a few days doing a magazine piece on the court wizards of Brooklyn’s Foster Park. He ended up staying the entire summer, becoming part of the players’ lives, and eventually the coach of a loose aggregation known as the Subway Stars. Telander tells of everything...
The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds
| Author | Pete Axthelm |
| ISBN | 0803259344 |
Axthelm was a columnist who covered sports in the Big Apple during the prime of the Knicks’ great teams in the late 60’s/early 70’s. This book is a documentary look at the team that captured the NBA championship at the end of the 1969-1970 season. Axthelm spends individual chapters describing...
A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument
| Author | Jasper Rees |
| ISBN | 0061626619 |
In the days before his fortieth birthday, London-based journalist Jasper Rees trades his pen for a French horn that has been gathering dust in the attic for more than twenty-two years, and, on a lark, plays it at the annual festival of the British Horn Society.
Despite an embarrassingly poor...
A Season Inside: One Year in College Basketball
| Author | John Feinstein |
| ISBN | 0671688820 |
Feinstein is a great writer and does a great job in chronicling the season starting with first practices, recruiting, pre-season tournaments, conference play, conference tournament, and ultimately the NCAA tournament and Final Four. It includes special focus on coaches, a few programs and side...
