Billy "the Hill" and the Jump Hook The Autobiography of a Forgotten Basketball Legend |
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| Author:
| McGill, Billy
Brach, Eric |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8032-4687-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $36.95 |
Book Description:
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Growing up on the hardscrabble streets of LA in the late 1950s, Billy McGill stood out. At eleven he was dunking. At fifteen he was playing in pickup games against Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain - and holding his own. How he went from college phenom, well on his way to becoming the greatest player Los Angeles ever produced, to sleeping in abandoned houses and washing up in a Laundromat sink is the story Billy "the Hill" McGill recounts here.
Growing up on the hardscrabble streets of LA in the late 1950s, Billy McGill stood out. At eleven he was dunking. At fifteen he was playing in pickup games against Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain - and holding his own. How he went from college phenom, well on his way to becoming the greatest player Los Angeles ever produced, to sleeping in abandoned houses and washing up in a Laundromat sink is the story Billy "the Hill" McGill recounts here.