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Feb 1, 2021 · The last shot : city streets, basketball dreams : Frey, Darcy : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Frey, Darcy. Publication date. 1996. Topics. Abraham Lincoln High School (New York, N.Y.) -- Basketball, Basketball -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York, Youth -- Recreation -- New York (State) -- New York.
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 · The Last Shot is a concise portrayal of institutional racism, localized to college basketball. Frey follows four teenagers as they navigate the NCAA recruitment process while living and balling in the projects of Coney Island, New York.
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Jun 18, 2024 · The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams is the "revelatory" (New York Times), "deeply empathetic" (New Yorker) true story of four teenagers attempting to escape the cycles of poverty, crime, and despair in 1990s Brooklyn by getting recruited to play college basketball.
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.
Mar 3, 2004 · The last shot by Darcy Frey, March 3, 2004, Mariner Books, Hougton Mifflin edition, in English
THE LAST SHOT: City Streets, Basketball Dreams. User Review - Kirkus. Expanding the Harper's piece that won a National Magazine Award, Frey deepens his devastating indictment of big-time...
