This is A Book About Youth and what time does to it, about fathers and mothers and sons and daughters, about an American town in search of its past, where the high school basketball team carries a century's worth of dreams into each game. Fall River, Massachusetts, became famous for Lizzie Borden, the wealthy spinster accused of axe-murdering her parents in the 1890s. Then, Fall River was a small but prosperous city, fueled by the 140 mills that made it the world's leading textile center. Immigrants from Ireland, Canada, England, Portugal, Lebanon, and elsewhere settled there, all pursuing the American dream, striving to attain one of the Victorian homes in the city's prestigious Highlands. But the mills began to close after World War I, and today Fall River is like many American towns, struggling with a changing economy: the mills are empty monuments, unemployment is high, crime and school drop-out rates are rising. Each autumn, however, the Durfee High School basketball team revives Fall River's dreams. In this lyrical, deeply felt, unforgettable book, Bill Reynolds spends a season with the kids, coaches, families, teachers, and fans of Durfee basketball. Game by game, Reynolds traces the unique history of the team and the town - a history that brings both joy and grief to thirteen teenaged boys and the coach who guides them. From the star to the supporting players to the little-used benchwarmer, we watch the team come together; and, with each victory or loss, we see the town live or die a little, a larger mirror to the team's destiny. Fall River Dreams joins the few special books - including Friday Night Lights, A False Spring, and Heaven Is a Playground - that explore the intense, fleeting romance of sports and youth, against the backdrop of an aging, less-promising America. Readers who accompany the Durfee team on its annual quest will find their own dreams rekindled by this book.

Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory-A Town's Search for Its Soul

Sports & Outdoors

Reynolds,Bill

Water Sports

St Martins Pr

In this deeply felt, unforgettable book, Bill Reynolds journeys with a high school basketball team through the past and present of an American town. Fall River, Massachusetts, is a once-prosperous industrial center haunted by its history, the Durfee High School basketball team begins its annual drive for a state championship: a quest that inspires and sometimes consumes kids, coaches, families, teachers, and all of Fall River.
Fall River Dreams is the story of one season's quest-a classic book about sports, youth, time, hope, and memory in America today.

Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for Its Soul

History

Americas

St. Martin's: Griffin

Bill Reynolds built his youth around sports. As a boy in a blue-collar Rhode Island town, he spend his hours shooting hoops and dreaming of stardom. From his adolescence to high school fame to a scholarship at Brown University, Reynolds enjoyed the perks of athletic glory. But those days soon ended and the onetime star drifted between his past and an uncertain future. Glory Days is a warm, touching, and funny book about what happens when jocks grow older --about getting a life without losing touch with your dreams.

Glory Days: On Sports, Men, and Dreams-That Don't Die

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

St.Martin's Press

Bill Reynolds built his youth around sports. As a boy in a blue-collar Rhode Island town, he spend his hours shooting hoops and dreaming of stardom. From his adolescence to high school fame to a scholarship at Brown University, Reynolds enjoyed the perks of athletic glory. But those days soon ended and the onetime star drifted between his past and an uncertain future. Glory Days is a warm, touching, and funny book about what happens when jocks grow older --about getting a life without losing touch with your dreams.

Glory Days: A Basketball Memoir

I was dead for thirty seconds.
That's what the cop in Fall River told me. 
 When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat.
 At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's and the city's dreams on his skinny frame. His grandfather, father, and older brother had created their own sports legends in a declining city; he was the last, best hope for a career beyond the shuttered mills and factories. Herren was heavily recruited by major universities, chosen as a McDonald's All-American, featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story, and at just seventeen years old became the central figure in Fall River Dreams, an acclaimed book about the 1994 Durfee team's quest for the state championship. 
 Leaving Fall River for college, Herren starred on Jerry Tarkanian's Fresno State Bulldogs team of talented misfits, which included future NBA players as well as future convicted felons. His gritty, tattooed, hip-hop persona drew the ire of rival fans and more national attention: Rolling Stone profiled him, 60 Minutes interviewed him, and the Denver Nuggets drafted him. When the Boston Celtics acquired his contract, he lived the dream of every Massachusetts kid―but off the court Herren was secretly crumbling, as his alcohol and drug use escalated and his life spiraled out of control.
 Twenty years later, Chris Herren was married to his high-school sweetheart, the father of three young children, and a heroin junkie. His basketball career was over, consumed by addictions; he had no job, no skills, and was a sadly familiar figure to those in Fall River who remembered him as a boy, now prowling the streets he once ruled, looking for a fix. One day, for a time he cannot remember, he would die. 
 In his own words, Chris Herren tells how he nearly lost everything and everyone he loved, and how he found a way back to life. Powerful, honest, and dramatic, Basketball Junkie is a remarkable memoir, harrowing in its descent, and heartening in its return.

Basketball Junkie: A Memoir

Herren, Chris

Biographies

Relives the exciting American League pennant race of 1967, when the Boston Red Sox, led by Triple Crown-winner Carl Yastrzemski, won their first pennant in twenty-one years. By the author of Born to Coach. Reprint.

Lost Summer: The '67 Red Sox and the Impossible Dream

Baseball

Grand Central Publishing

The women's weight-resistance bible!

Flex Appeal by Rachel

McLish, Rachel

A nostalgic look at the 1967 Boston Red Sox and their miraculous pennant-winning season tells how the team ended a twenty-year losing streak during a summer buffeted by waves of anti-war protests, violence, and chaos

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

Born to Coach

Pitino, Rick

Basketball

Signet

Chronicles the 1988-89 season in college basketball's most prominent conference, following the teams and personalities that define the Big East

Big Hoops

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Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory-A Town's Search for Its Soul

Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for Its Soul

Glory Days: On Sports, Men, and Dreams-That Don't Die

Glory Days: A Basketball Memoir

Basketball Junkie: A Memoir

Lost Summer: The '67 Red Sox and the Impossible Dream

Flex Appeal by Rachel

Lost Summer: The '67 Red Sox and the Impossible Dream

Born to Coach

Big Hoops