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Oct 4, 1991 · A 1991 drama sport film about an urban high school basketball team and their coach. See cast, crew, plot summary, trivia, reviews, and more on IMDb.
- (369)
- Drama, Sport
- Randall Fried
- 1991-10-04
Heaven Is a Playground is a 1976 book by Rick Telander. It describes Telander's observations of the streetball culture in Brooklyn during the summer of 1974. Among the players featured in the book are Fly Williams and Albert King. [1]
Heaven Is a Playground is a 1991 American sports drama film based on Rick Telander's 1976 non-fiction book of the same name. It was written and directed by Randall Fried, and stars Michael Warren , D.B. Sweeney , Victor Love , Bo Kimble , Richard Jordan and Janet Julian .
Jan 1, 1976 · It is a sociological study of the effects of poverty in young black men, gentrification and impoverishment in neighborhoods, and the central role of basketball as a cultural and uniting element of a neighborhood. At its heart, the book shows why heaven is a playground.
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- Paperback
Sep 3, 2013 · Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush.
- (66)
- Sports Publishing
- $14.99
- Rick Telander
Currently you are able to watch "Heaven Is a Playground" streaming on fuboTV or for free with ads on Xumo Play. Synopsis On Chicago's South Side, too many kids get their one shot in life at the wrong end of a gun.
Oct 20, 2020 · Heaven Is a Playground is one of a kind—a funny, sad, ultimately inspiring book about Americans and the roots of the sport that they love.
- Rick Telander
