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# When the Game Was Ours

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Buy When the Game Was Ours Illustrated by Bird, Larry, Johnson, Earvin, Macmullan, Jackie (ISBN: 9780547394589) from desertcart's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Review: Superb Book on one of sports great rivalries - I came to this book via the HBO documentary; A Courtship of Rivals, which I absolutely loved and as a result turned me into a NBA fan (I am from the UK so football was my 1st love). The book is a wonderful accompaniment to that documentary, but offers so much more insight and detail. A particular delight, was the backstory behind the Converse commercial and how their friendship developed from there. This book is a must for any sport historian fan and it is highly recommended
Review: Wonderfully researched & written. - The book was everything I hoped it would be - fantastically researched & written with painstaking detail. Wonderful.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 432,993 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 48 in Magician Biographies 138 in Basketball (Books) 815 in History of Sports (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,339) |
| Dimensions  | 13.49 x 2.06 x 20.32 cm |
| Edition  | Illustrated |
| ISBN-10  | 0547394586 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0547394589 |
| Item weight  | 1.05 kg |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 368 pages |
| Publication date  | 30 Nov. 2009 |
| Publisher  | Mariner Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Superb Book on one of sports great rivalries
*by T***R on 27 August 2016*

I came to this book via the HBO documentary; A Courtship of Rivals, which I absolutely loved and as a result turned me into a NBA fan (I am from the UK so football was my 1st love). The book is a wonderful accompaniment to that documentary, but offers so much more insight and detail. A particular delight, was the backstory behind the Converse commercial and how their friendship developed from there. This book is a must for any sport historian fan and it is highly recommended

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderfully researched & written.
*by S***S on 11 September 2021*

The book was everything I hoped it would be - fantastically researched & written with painstaking detail. Wonderful.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful front cover and a brilliant book to boot
*by L***Y on 2 December 2013*

I nearly always have a book on the go but tend to read them at a pretty slow rate, wanting to absorb the information rather than rush through the text. This book however was so gripping, so larger than life and so inspiring that it kept me hooked page after page with as much detail as you could ask for about two amazing athletes and their incredible rivalry that's more magical than any fiction could hope to emulate. Like all great sports books, When the Game was Ours is a fascinating historical document of what a sport used to be like and the two players who helped to make it the mega-industry that it is today. Even though I knew all the results I still found myself immersed in the play-off storylines and totally inspired by the unrelenting work ethic and unselfish nature which made these two men and their teams such a brilliant success. Probably one of the top ten sports book I've read and I've read quite a lot.

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