Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association

Loose Balls, the first history of the ABA, is a wild ride through some of the wackiest, funniest, strangest times ever to hit pro sports - told entirely through the words of those who played, wrote, and connived their way through the league's nine seasons. Newsweek: "Sex, drugs, platform shoes, sideburns, slam dunks, midnight franchise shifts, million-dollar deferred-payment player contracts, the three-point shot, Dr J, Marvin (Bad News) Barnes, LaVerne (Jelly) Tart, and Pat Boone (yes, Pat Boone). Pro sports, the way they oughta be." What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Slam Dunk contest have in common? They all got their professional start in the American Basketball Association.