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When a fistfight broke out between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers one night in 1977, All-Star Rudy Tomjanovich raced to break it up. He was met by Kermit Washington, a good player with a great reputation, and by an astonishingly ferocious punch, a single blow that has reverberated in both men's lives ever since. With his unerring insight into the deeper truths of professional sports, John Feinstein reveals what really happened that night and traces the remarkable trajectories of both men's careers before and after the punch. Through this one cataclysmic event he casts a light on the NBA's darkest secrets, exploring violence, race, and the true price men pay when they choose a career and a life in sports. ..
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Basketball, Violence in sports, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction, History, Basketball, historyPlaces
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Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
2007, Little Brown & Company
in English
0316019232 9780316019231
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The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
November 4, 2003, Back Bay Books
Paperback
in English
0316735639 9780316735636
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The punch: one night, two lives, and the fight that changed basketball forever
2003, Little, Brown
0316279722 9780316279727
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The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
October 2002, Recorded Books
Audio Cassette
in English
- Unabridged edition
1402524846 9781402524844
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Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
2002, Little Brown & Company
in English
0759507058 9780759507050
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The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
November 5, 2002, Little, Brown
Hardcover
in English
- 1 edition
0316279722 9780316279727
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The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
2002, Little, Brown and Co.
Paperback
in English
0759547084 9780759547087
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The punch: one night, two lives, and the fight that changed basketball forever
2002, Little, Brown, and Co.
in English
- 1st ed.
0316279722 9780316279727
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Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
2002, Little Brown & Company
in English
0759587159 9780759587151
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