Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball by Jen Bryant

Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball by Jen Bryant

Author:Jen Bryant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams


Reasons for this include the racial bias surrounding professional sports and sports media coverage in the

1950s and 1960s; the fact that pro basketball wasn’t nearly as popular as baseball or football in the years during

which Baylor played; and Baylor’s own humility and aversion to self-promotion, bragging, or any inflated sense

of self-importance. These factors have allowed his unparalleled performance, statistics, and his unique stylistic

contributions to basketball to remain largely unheralded.



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