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Mar 3, 2004 · The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams. Paperback – March 3, 2004. Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of four young men as they navigate the NCAA recruitment process, their only hope of escape from a life of crime, poverty, and despair.
May 14, 2014 · ‘The Last Shot,’ 20 Years Later. Two decades after Darcy Frey’s seminal work on New York City basketball, Lincoln High School, and four boys from Coney Island, we look back at the book’s legacy and enduring importance
Jan 1, 2001 · Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of four young men as they navigate the NCAA recruitment process, their only hope of escape from a life of crime, poverty, and despair. It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than that.
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- The Decline and Fall of Coney Island
- Drugs, Knives and Basketball
- The Chosen Ones
- Immoral Recruiting Strategies
- Proposition 48
- A Heartbreaking Epilogue
- Final Notes
- 12min Tip
During the first half of the 20th century, Coney Island was an immigrant haven, a seaside resort, and the largest entertainment zone in the United States, home to a number of amusement parks visited by millions of people every year. “Nowhere else in the United States will you see so many races mingle in a common purpose for a common good,” wrote a ...
It doesn’t take a genius to surmise that in a desolate community such as Coney Island, drugs and violence rule the day. In fact, most summer nights, “the streets fall prey to the gangs and drug dealers,” and the “sounds of sirens and gunfire” fill the night with ominous thoughts and terrors. For a young man raised in Brooklyn’s wastelands, drug dea...
Not yet 17 and already six foot seven, the enthusiastic and goofy Tchaka Shipp is “a majestic-looking kid, with high cheekbones and a long sloping forehead that lend him an Egyptian aspect.” He has talent, God-given physical attributes, and the privilege of living far from Coney, in the more working-class environs of Jamaica, Queens. He has also al...
Just like half a million high school basketball players every year, Shipp, Johnson, Thomas and Marbury dream of “making it.” Unfortunately, the odds are stacked against them: only 5,000 – or, no more than 1% – actually win a Division I scholarship. The first step toward it is the Nike All-American summer camp, where Frey follows Shipp to witness th...
There’s another, bigger problem than the immorality of the recruiting process, and it’s called Proposition 48. Instituted by the NCAA, the proposition requires student-athletes to meet certain academic requirements to be eligible to play Division I sports. For basketball players in 1991, it meant scoring a minimum of 700 on the SATs. The SAT, of co...
Because Thomas couldn’t achieve the 700 SAT score, Philadelphia’s Temple University withdrew its scholarship offer and he ended up at a junior college near Los Angeles. An electrifying scorer, he broke many records while there, but eventually lost his way, became homeless and was killed by an Amtrak train in 1999 at the early age of 26. Many of his...
Simultaneously sobering, heartbreaking, and triumphant, “The Last Shot” is a timeless book, possibly the best one on basketball ever written. As Bill Simmons says, “if you haven't seen ‘Hoop Dreams’ or read ‘The Last Shot’ by Darcy Frey, you can't consider yourself a true basketball fan.” And indeed, you can’t.
To quote the opening line of “The Great Gatsby,” “whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
Jul 28, 2021 · A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens. From reckless drug addict to one of Australia’s top chefs and television stars: MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo's powerful life story will shock and inspire.
- Jock Zonfrillo
Jul 28, 2021 · A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens. From reckless drug addict to one of Australia’s top chefs and television stars: MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo's powerful life story will shock and inspire.
- Jock Zonfrillo
