I Grew Up with Basketball (a memoir of the game)
Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 07:00pm – 09:00pm
Join Keene State College professor Michael Antonucci on Wednesday, November 13, at 7PM, for at talk on the book, I Grew Up with Basketball, which is a memoir by Frank J. Basloe who grew up in Herkimer, New York, where YMCA director Lambert Will developed the game of basketball.
The book offers an eyewitness account of the humble roots of the imposing enterprise that is professional basketball today. Antonucci brought Frank J Basloe’s I Grew Up with Basketball, back into print. His introduction to the book tracks the game—from Basloe’s Globe Trotters to LeBron James—and its trappings as a business vehicle.
Basloe’s autobiographical account of Basketball’s evolution and development before World War I offers a fantastic account of assimilation and aculturation in the United States during third wave immigration.Professor Antonucci will explore some of the local connections. Basloe’s book discusses Brattleboro’s status as a basketball powerhouse during the game’s early years.
Frank J. Basloe (1887–1966) was born in Hungary, and his family immigrated to the United States in the late nineteenth century.
Michael A. Antonucci is Associate Professor in the American Studies Program & English Department at Keene State College, where he teaches African American literature and American Studies. His scholarship and creative writing has appeared in Admit2, African American Review, American Studies Journal, Arkansas Review, The Black Scholar, Callaloo, Exquisite Corpse, New Sound, Obsidian III, and Valley Voices. He is the recipient of grants from the American Studies Association and the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College His research interests include American sporting culture at the intersection of race, ethnicity and identity.
Location Brooks Memorial Library, Meeting Room
Contact Info Jerry Carbone, jerry@brookslibraryvt.org
