Full name: The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, And The Fight That Changed Basketball Forever

Author: John Feinstein Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, Non Fiction, Biographies, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316735636 0316735639

With unerring insight into the deeper truths of professional sports, John Feinstein explores in riveting detail what happened one night in December 1977 when, as a fistfight broke out on the court between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers, Kermit Washington delivered a punch that nearly killed All-Star Rudy Tomjanovich. The punch-now legendary in the annals of American sports-radically changed the trajectory of both men's lives and reverberates throughout the National Basketball Association to this day. Feinstein's compelling investigation of this single cataclysmic incident and its aftermath casts a light on the NBA's darkest secrets, revealing the true price men pay when they choose a career in sports. Similar books: The Miracle of St. Anthony by Adrian Wojnarowski Tip-Off by Filip Bondy The Last Shot by Darcy Frey The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam Heaven Is a Playground by Rick Telander A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais When March Went Mad by Seth Davis The Last Great Game by Gene Wojciechowski Loose Balls by Terry Pluto The Last Amateurs by John Feinstein Boys Among Men by Jonathan Abrams A March to Madness by John Feinstein A Season Inside by John Feinstein Living on the Black by John Feinstein The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost The Teammates by David Halberstam Twelve Mighty Orphans by Jim Dent Willie Mays by James S. Hirsch