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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 .
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. The book was ranked #15 in a 2002 Sports Illustrated list of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time.
Oct 4, 1991 · Heaven Is a Playground: Directed by Randall Fried. With LaTaunya Bounds, Terry Bradley, Cylk Cozart, Stavon Lovell Davis. A coach and a lawyer team up to provide incentives for an urban high school basketball team to stay out of trouble.
Jan 1, 1976 · Heaven is a Playground gives a never-before-seen inside look at the purity of basketball, even in one of the most beleaguered places on Earth. This book captures not only the spirit of the game, but also vividly recreates the mid-70s and Brooklyn
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. Genres Sports 288 pages, Hardcover
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.
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Jan 1, 2009 · Sports writer Rick Telander spent two summers observing urban playground basketball at Foster Park in the ghettos of Brooklyn over 35 years ago. He chronicles those two summers in Heaven Is a Playground. Telander, a young writer at the time, throws himself into his subject.
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