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Fall river dreams by bill reynolds
Fall river dreams by bill reynolds




Most of the fans were adults, many over forty-five. Roughly three thousand people were packed in the Durfee gym, an astounding number for a high school basketball game in the Northeast. "But when I walked into the gym in December 1991 it was as if I had stepped into a time warp, thrown back to some lost day thirty years ago, when high school sports were important. Since Reynolds is a professional writer, and a good one at that, I'll let him take it from here, And then miraculously he attended a Fall River basketball game, albeit against his will. In the early 90s Bill Reynolds was a sportswriter with a problem.

  • The white The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams?.
  • Massachusetts towns in general, Fall River in particular.
  • In a developing tradition at Green Bandwagon this review, inspired by Jack McCallum's sensible work, is divided into themes: Long story short, I'm going with Fall River Dreams or FRD from here on. This is a terrible development in the world of sports books. Alas it was called Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream. And yes I was just about to say that Friday Night Lights did just fine without the sappy title. It does not change the way I feel about the book.

    fall river dreams by bill reynolds

    But I wonder if adding "A Team's Quest for Glory - A Town's Quest For Its Soul" was an attempt to get the book into education curriculums around the country. That's not to say the book is not profound.

    fall river dreams by bill reynolds

    That strikes me as an incredibly transparent attempt by a publisher to make the book appear profound in the hopes of appealing to a wider audience.

    fall river dreams by bill reynolds

    The book is officially named Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory - A Town's Quest For Its Soul.

    fall river dreams by bill reynolds

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