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Book Title: I Grew Up with Basketball : Twenty Years of Barnstorming with Cage Greats of Yesterday
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Year: 2012
Topic: United States / 20th Century, Basketball
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Sports & Recreation, History
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Author: Frank J. Basloe, D. Gordon Rohman
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
