Ann Meyers Drysdale signs new book at US Airways Center

You Let Some Girl Beat You? (Behler Publications, $15.95, 231 pages)


Ann Meyers Drysdale’s resume must be running out of space for there isn’t much she hasn’t conquered on or off the court in her 57 years. 
 
The basketball pioneer, college superstar, UCLA legend, Olympian, sports crusader, broadcaster and NBA and WNBA executive, has now added “author” to her long list of accomplishments. Meyers Drysdale recently penned You Let Some Girl Beat You? (Behler Publications, $15.95), her long-awaited autobiography. The 231-page book details her adversity, triumphs and ultimate acceptance in the sports and broadcasting world, and is timed for publication as the 40th anniversary of Title IX is being celebrated.

“When I was in the fourth grade I read a book on Babe Didrikson Zaharis, and it gave me my dream to be an Olympian,” Meyers Drysdale said. “So I’m hoping that my book will open up doors for other young girls and give them the dreams that they want.” 

Meyers Drysdale will sign her book 5:30 p.m. on Friday, July 13, 2012, at the US Airways Center, 201 E. Jefferson St., Phoenix. She will sign books preceding the Phoenix Mercury game against the Seattle Storm, and again at halftime in section 119-120 on the main concourse.    

Named by Time magazine as one of the Top 10 Female Sports Pioneers of all time, Meyers Drysdale is the only woman ever to play for an NBA team (the Indiana Pacers in 1979) and the only woman to sign a no-cut contract with the NBA. She was also the first woman ever to do color commentary of an NBA game, as well as the first woman to announce an NBA game on network television.

Meyers Drysdale was the first woman ever signed to a four-year athletic scholarship to UCLA, where she led the Women’s basketball team to their only National Championship in 1978. She was also a National Champion in Track & Field (both the pentathlon & high jump). To this day, she is the only four-time Bruin basketball All American, male or female. 

A key figure in challenging many of the stereotypes that had long limited women’s opportunities in sport, Meyers Drysdale defied convention upon graduating from UCLA when she accepted a $150,000 free agent contract with the NBA’s Indiana Pacers. While the contract did not lead to a roster spot for Meyers Drysdale and was itself controversial at the time, she helped lay the foundation for women to play professional basketball in the United States.

After her athletic career she married Don Drysdale, legendary pitcher and announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, making them the first ever married couple enshrined in their respective sports’ Halls of Fame. In her role as WNBA General Manager of the Phoenix Mercury and the Vice President of the Phoenix Suns, she assembled championship basketball squads in 2007 and 2009. 

Today Meyers Drysdale continues to break barriers in her role as a broadcaster. She covered the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Olympics for NBC and will be covering the 2012 Olympics in London this August. She also has an ongoing relationship with Fox, having just broadcast the Stanford vs. Cal Pac 10 men’s basketball finals in 2012.

If you go:
What: Ann Meyers Drysdale book signing, You Let Some Girl Beat You?
Where: US Airways Center, 201 E. Jefferson St., Phoenix
When: 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 13, 2012
Information: www.annmeyersdrysdale.com

Lively Librarian says Pete Maravich is top shelf

I'm not much of a sports fan but I am a BIG fan of exceptional people and after reading Pete Maravich The Authorized Biography of Pistol Pete by Wayne Federman and Marshall Terrill I have a new respect for an extraordinary athlete and family man, the basketball legend "Pistol Pete".

Authors Federman and Terrill write an authorized biography of a man with an awe inspiring talent who deeply loved his family and his faith. The book is meticulously researched and written with details that aren't just facts from interviews but from the rare privilege of collaboration with Pete's widow. The beautiful family photographs, the inclusion of personal letters and the quirky personality traits (Pete's wearing of large stretched out gray socks for 9 seasons because he thought they made his feet appear smaller and made him feel faster) are all included in Pete's story and create a book that is hard to put down. Not only are his athletic accomplishments mind boggling (he is considered by many to be the greatest college basketball player of all time and is a 5 time NBA All Star) but his dedication to his health (he was vegan, grew his own vegetables and ate soy and juiced before it was mainstream) and his family (wife Jackie and 2 sons) and his faith (in the depths of despair he found Christ and changed his life) are inspiring.

Pete died suddenly at age 40 in 1988.

Read the book and learn what true greatness is all about.

For more information on this review, go to www.livelylibrarian.com or to buy a copy of Pete Maravich: The Authorized Biography of Pistol Pete, visit www.amazon.com.

Pistol Pete No. 1 scorer with Amazon

Pistol Pete No. 1 with a bullet

“Pistol” Pete Maravich is still a top gun according to Amazon.com, who ranks Pete Maravich: The Authorized Biography as the best-selling basketball book in the nation.

One of 2007's most acclaimed sports biographies is now a top paperback. Focus on the Family and Tyndale Publishers proudly present Pete Maravich: The Authorized Biography of Pistol Pete by Wayne Federman and Marshall Terrill.

With a new photo section and a foreword by Dr. James Dobson, the 480-page biography is the definitive account of the basketball superstar.

After staying silent for two decades, Jackie Maravich has welcomed authors Federman and Terrill into the superstar basketball player's private world. She has shared her personal memories and also provided unfettered access to the family archive of scrapbooks, films, letters, calendars, diaries, and photographs to allow Pete's story to be fully told for the first time.

The result is Pete Maravich: the Authorized Biography of Pistol Pete.

From childhood Pete Maravich mesmerized fans and opponents alike with audacious ball handling and relentless scoring. Julius Erving called him "a basketball genius." The mop-topped, floppy-socked prodigy was a legend at LSU, averaging a staggering 44.2 points per game--the highest in NCAA history. Then a brilliant pro career with the Hawks, Jazz and Celtics led to enshrinement in the Hall of Fame and selection as one of the top 50 players in NBA history.

But there was a price. Maravich brought a child-like exuberance to the court that often masked a tortured and confused adult. His obsessive personality--he often referred to himself as a "basketball android"--and inability to win a championship triggered despair and thoughts of suicide. Eventually he found peace in Christianity and a quiet home life.

Then, at age 40, Maravich died. The exact cause--a congenital heart defect-- stunned both the sports and medical worlds. Pistol Pete had been living on borrowed time. It was called a medical miracle that he survived his teens, let alone become a superstar athlete.

In addition to countless hours spent with Jackie and her sons, Jaeson and Joshua, the authors also interviewed more than 300 teammates, opponents, journalists, coaches, detractors, fans, and extended family to bring back to vivid life the story of a transcendent athlete who thrilled everyone except himself.

Also included is a comprehensive appendix of Maravich statistics, plus Pistol Pete's 25 greatest games.

For more information or to order a copy of Pete Maravich: The Authorized Biography of Pistol Pete, go to www.MaravichBook.com or www.amazon.com.

James Dobson writes foreword on Pistol Pete bio

Dr. James Dobson's foreword for Pete Maravich: The Authorized Biography of Pistol Pete.
(By Wayne Federman and Marshall Terrill, Tyndale, Focus on the Family, $14.99)


Foreword

Pete Maravich may have had as big an impact on the game of basketball
as any player in modern history. If a chronicle of his unprecedented athletic
achievements is what you’re looking for, you’ll certainly find it within
the pages of this book: more than 40 NCAA records (many of which still
stand today); an average of 44 points per game at LSU and 24 points per game
over his ten years in the NBA; five Sports Illustrated covers; and an illustrious
collection of awards, records, milestones, and landmarks too numerous to list.
Even today, two decades after his death, the name “Pistol Pete” inspires
awe, respect, and admiration from those both inside and outside the world of
sports. He was an icon in the days before salary caps, product endorsements,
and celebrity shrouded that term in a cloud of crass commercialism. He was
the real deal.

Nevertheless, the awards, records, and recognition were not what ultimately
defined Pete Maravich. By his own admission, he reached a point in
his life where he realized that fame and fortune were ultimately meaningless
in the eternal scheme of things.As he would later say,“Money will buy you
anything but happiness. It’ll pay your fare to every place but heaven.”And so,
on a rainy night in 1982, he asked Jesus Christ to fill his life and his heart.
For the remainder of his days on earth, which ended in 1988,“Pistol Pete’s”
passion was not basketball or any other earthly pursuit, but his love for God
and his desire to share it with others.

And that is where he and I crossed paths for the first time. I did not know
Pete well, but we did begin to develop a friendship when, in 1987, I invited
him to share his story on our Focus on the Family radio program. On January
5, 1988, the day the broadcast was to be recorded, I had the audacity to invite
“Pistol Pete” to join me and several of my colleagues for an early morning
pickup basketball game at a local church gym. Early morning games of this
sort had been a tri-weekly tradition among us for years.

The sports legend was very gracious to accept our invitation and to
endeavor not to embarrass the rest of us too severely while we lumbered
around the court as only over-the-hill guys can.

I quickly learned that Pete had been suffering from unidentified pain in
his right shoulder for many months. If it had been in his left,physicians would
have suspected it was his heart. The problem was incorrectly diagnosed as
“neuralgia.” Aside from playing in the NBA “Legends Game,” he had not
been on the basketball court in more than a year. Nevertheless,we had a good
time that morning.

Pete moved at about one-third his normal speed, and the rest of us
huffed and puffed to keep up.We played for about forty-five minutes and
then took a break to get a drink. Pete and I stayed on the court and talked
while waiting for the other players to come back. He spoke of his desire to
play more recreational basketball after his struggles with shoulder pain were
over.

“How do you feel today?” I asked.

“I feel great,” he said.

Those were Pete’s last words. I turned to walk away, and for some reason,
looked back in time to see him go down. His face and body hit the
boards hard. Still, I thought he was teasing. Pete had a great sense of humor,
and I assumed that he was playing off his final comment about feeling good.
I hurried over to where he lay, still expecting to see him get up laughing.
But then I saw that he was having a seizure. I held his tongue to keep his
air passage open and called for the other guys to come help me.The seizure
lasted about twenty seconds, and then Pete stopped breathing.We started
CPR immediately, but were never able to get another heartbeat or breath.
Pete died in my arms.

Several of us accompanied the ambulance to the hospital, where we
prayerfully watched the emergency room staff try to revive him for another
forty-five minutes. But it was no use.

An autopsy revealed a few days later that Pete suffered from a congenital
heart malformation and never knew it. That was why his shoulder had
been hurting. How he was able to perform such incredible exploits on the
basketball court for so many years is a medical mystery. He was destined to
drop dead at a fairly young age, and only God knows why it happened during
the brief moment when his path crossed mine.

In the world of sports, it’s not about how you start; it’s about how you
finish. If you’re a coach, no one will remember your early victories if your
team loses the big game at the end of the season. At the same time, legends
are made by those who overcome losses and disappointments early to emerge
victorious when the championship trophy is up for grabs. Those are the
“dream teams” that people remember.

“Pistol Pete’s” life was like that.Without a doubt, his massive, record smashing
contributions to the game of basketball are worthy of the accolades
he has received. But his accomplishments and his trophies did not give him
satisfaction. Pete found lasting peace and contentment in the saving grace of
God, and I believe he would want to be remembered first and foremost as a
passionate follower of Jesus Christ. It’s not about how you start; it’s about how
you finish.

During our basketball game on the morning Pete died, he was wearing
a T-shirt that read, “Looking unto Jesus,” which is a reference to Hebrews
12:2.That says it all, doesn’t it? You’ll read a lot about basketball and trophies
and fame in this book, and there’s no denying the remarkable achievements
of one of America’s truly great basketball players. However, in the end, I
believe the simple message contained on that T-shirt tells you all you need to
know about Pete Maravich.

JAMES C. DOBSON, PH.D.
Founder and Chairman of Focus on the Family

Definitive Pete Maravich book now in paperback

"The definitive biography of Pete Maravich" - David Lloyd, ESPN sports commentator

One of 2007's most acclaimed sports biographies is now in paperback. Focus on the Family and Tyndale Publishers proudly present Pete Maravich: The Authorized Biography of Pistol Pete by Wayne Federman and Marshall Terrill.

With a new photo section and a foreword by Dr. James Dobson, the 480-page biography is the definitive account of the basketball superstar.

After staying silent for two decades, Jackie Maravich has welcomed authors Federman and Terrill into the superstar basketball player's private world. She has shared her personal memories and also provided unfettered access to the family archive of scrapbooks, films, letters, calendars, diaries, and photographs to allow Pete's story to be fully told for the first time.

The result is Pete Maravich, the Authorized Biography of Pistol Pete.

From childhood Pete Maravich mesmerized fans and opponents alike with audacious ball handling and relentless scoring. Julius Erving called him "a basketball genius." The mop-topped, floppy-socked prodigy was a legend at LSU, averaging a staggering 44.2 points per game--the highest in NCAA history. Then a brilliant pro career with the Hawks, Jazz and Celtics led to enshrinement in the Hall of Fame and selection as one of the top 50 players in NBA history.

But there was a price. Maravich brought a child-like exuberance to the court that often masked a tortured and confused adult. His obsessive personality--he often referred to himself as a "basketball android"--and inability to win a championship triggered despair and thoughts of suicide. Eventually he found peace in Christianity and a quiet home life.

Then, at age 40, Maravich died. The exact cause--a congenital heart defect-- stunned both the sports and medical worlds. Pistol Pete had been living on borrowed time. It was called a medical miracle that he survived his teens, let alone become a superstar athlete.

In addition to countless hours spent with Jackie and her sons, Jaeson and Joshua, the authors also interviewed more than 300 teammates, opponents, journalists, coaches, detractors, fans, and extended family to bring back to vivid life the story of a transcendent athlete who thrilled everyone except himself.

Also included is a comprehensive appendix of Maravich statistics, plus Pistol Pete's 25 greatest games.

For more information, go to www.MaravichBook.com

Shelly Saltman appears in Palm Springs Feb. 20

SHELLY SALTMAN, INTERNATIONAL SPORTS PROMOTER WILL BE NEXT FEATURED “DINNER WITH….” SPEAKER ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 AT MELVYN’S AT THE INGLESIDE INN IN PALM SPRINGS


Following its early successful track record with its fun “Dinner With…” speakers series, Melvyn’s presents Shelly Saltman international promoter, who will appear on Wednesday, February 20 at 6:30 p.m.

For over fifty years Sheldon "Shelly" Saltman has been involved in major Corporate, Entertainment and Sports productions around the world. He has represented a galaxy of world class figures including the late Russian President, Boris Yeltsin. As an event producer, promoter, publicist and government advisor, Saltman’s list of his successes reads like a roll call of American sports, music and entertainment
including World Championship fights featuring Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Tommy Hearns and Roberto Duran, concert tours with Andy Williams, The Who, Joe Cocker. He has also held key executive positions with major sports franchises like the Los Angeles Lakers basketball teams plus a strong hand in the formation of the now defunct World Football League, as well as two NBA Franchises.

Saltman is the former President of 20th Century FOX Sports and a published author of three books including “Fear No Evel” about his years of promoting the flashy daredevil. He is the creator of the CBS hit TV Series “Challenge of the Sexes,” and the syndicated series “Pro Fan.” With his partner Stuart Rowlands, he owns SR Media, a marketing /pr/promotion firm headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Palm Springs. SR Media’s two principals have been responsible for more than 1,000 events in 52 countries including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Ghana Government, the Bulgarian government and the Quebec Ministry of Tourism.

The “Dinner With….” series features an intimate four-course gourmet dinner with a celebrity, author or notable personality and an opportunity for a Q & A following an informal talk by the guest speaker. Cost is $35 per person, excluding tax and gratuity.

Reservations are required by calling 760 325-2323.

Terrill appears at Melvyn's on Feb. 13

Biographer set to appear at Melvyn's series
Judith Salkin • The Desert Sun • February 12, 2008

Since 1989, Marshall Terrill has spent a lot of time researching and chronicling the life of Steve McQueen.

On Wednesday, he'll be the guest speaker at Melvyn's "Dinner With..." speakers series in Palm Springs.

Terrill's first book, "Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel," was published in 1993. Since then, Terrill has published 10 books, including "Steve McQueen: The Last Mile" (2007).

Terrill is also an experienced reporter. His career began in 1989, shortly after going to work for Charles Keating, the banker at the center of the decade's savings and loan scandal.

"I was working my way through college," said Terrill. His plan was to earn his degree and go to work for one of Keating's companies.

But, "when the job went, so did my marriage." (Keating was convicted of fraud in 1999.)

In 2007, Merrill published three books, including his latest McQueen book, which took nine months.

"It's mostly a pictorial with a 500-word passage at each chapter," he said. "It's Barbara's (McQueen's third wife) recollections of their time together."

Terrill also published "Maravich," a biography of basketball legend "Pistol" Pete Maravich, and "Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business," co-authored with Sonny West, who was Presley's friend and bodyguard for 16 years.

"That book took four years to research and write," Terrill said. "There's so much information out there on Elvis, I had to make sure it was absolutely perfect before it was published."

"Maravich" book signing at LSU game on Feb. 24

Gabcast! A Book Buzz #15 - "Maravich" book signing at LSU vs. Florida game on Feb. 24

This Saturday, the "Maravich" team will sign books in the Pete Maravich pass before, during and after the Feb. 24 game at LSU. Jackie, Jaeson & Joshua Maravich, as well as authors Marshall Terrill and Wayne Federman, will sign copies of "Maravich." The book retails for $25.

"Maravich" reaches its highest ranking ever on Amazon

Gabcast! A Book Buzz #14 - "Maravich" reaches its highest ranking ever on Amazon

Three months after its initial release, "Maravich" by Wayne Federman and Marshall Terrill has reached its highest ranking ever by Amazon.com. The book is currently the sixth-ranked sports book in the U.S. according to the bookseller.

NY Times calls "Maravich" essential biography

Crowd Pleaser

By JAY JENNINGS
Published: February 11, 2007

On May 3, 1989, I popped a VHS tape into my machine and recorded an entire game of the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan to save for posterity. It was an ordinary first-round playoff game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, admittedly a team Jordan often torched, but I had no idea what would happen. Jordan ended with 44 points and delivered a few signature moments — a steal and a breakaway dunk, a series of fadeaway jumpers, an end-to-end rebound, sprint and layup. In an ESPN world of quick-cut highlights where a player’s dunk dissolves into the next clip before he hits the ground, I wanted to preserve what snippet-sports often denies us: context. While the most sensational exploits of our athlete gods become as luminescent in public consciousness as stained glass (Julius Erving’s behind-the-backboard layup, Willie Mays’s over-the-shoulder catch), the proof of greatness often lies in their ability to amaze every day. Arguably, no basketball player, not even Jordan, met that test as regularly as Pete Maravich, whose between-the-legs assists and next-ZIP-code jumpers still defy belief. Too bad he played mostly pre-VCR.
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MARAVICH

By Wayne Federman and Marshall Terrill in collaboration with Jackie Maravich.

Illustrated. 422 pp. Sport Classic Books. $24.95.

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Even a casual fan may know of Maravich’s trademark floppy socks and hair and his college scoring average of 44.2 points per game during his three years at Louisiana State University, a record as seemingly unassailable as Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak. The more ardent will know Maravichiana like his idiosyncratic ball-handling drills, an obsessive practice ethic that found him sitting in aisle seats at movie theaters so he could dribble while he watched, and a checkered pro career marked by injury, coaching turmoil, frequent drinking and, most of all, losing. After retiring from the pros, he embraced evangelical Christianity and died unexpectedly in 1988 at the age of 40, owing to a genetic heart ailment.

A pair of recent biographies — one by Mark Kriegel, the author of “Namath,” and the other a team effort from the actor and comedian Wayne Federman and the journalist Marshall Terrill, with an assist from Maravich’s widow, Jackie Maravich — cover this material baseline to baseline, with admirable thoroughness. In “Maravich,” Federman et al. assay a more exhaustive (and occasionally exhausting) approach, dutifully summarizing statistics in parentheses, front-loading each chapter with not one but two epigraphs and stacking up repetitive encomiums. Once you’ve had the Hall of Famer and onetime Maravich coach Elgin Baylor say, “Pete is the best I’ve ever seen,” do we really need to hear the same from a dozen others? But its labor-of-love enthusiasm is infectious, and it’s essential for Maravich completists, especially for the reassessment of his pro career and for anecdotal feats of basketball wizardry, like his delivering on a boast to hit 100 jumpers from beyond 25 feet without missing two in a row. It also contains the single most convincing statistical refutation of the charge that Maravich was a selfish gunner: in the N.B.A., when he scored more than 40 points, his team won 82 percent of its games, compared with Jordan’s 69 percent and Allen Iverson’s 68.

Kriegel’s prose is flashier but often errant. A young Maravich is described as having “a big head mounted on a wispy frame, dense as a wafer”; the Maravich-as-Elvis theme is hammered ad nauseam; and one chapter in “Pistol” has the truly awful title “The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Pete.” But Kriegel does uncover some nuggets otherwise lost to history, as when he traces one inspiration for Maravich’s dribbling drills to a ball-handling sensation named Ah Chew Goo, whom Pete’s father, Press, had seen when stationed in Hawaii in the service.

Kriegel also tries to situate Maravich in his times, particularly in relation to the era’s racial dynamics. Despite the precedent of Bob Cousy’s legerdemain, Maravich’s crowd-pleasing style was identified with that of the urban playground and its black stars. Marvin Turner, a black player from Baton Rouge who competed against Maravich in the summer, tells Kriegel, “There had never been a white guy who played like that — he had a soul game.” The growing National Basketball Association was beginning to be dominated by African-Americans, and the mantle of “great white hope” thrust upon Maravich, along with the accompanying rich contract, didn’t help his transition to the league; when he joined the Atlanta Hawks, black veterans like Lou Hudson and Joe Caldwell, who’d toiled for years for a fraction of the money Maravich commanded, were understandably annoyed. In time, the tempest blew over, but over a 10-year career that saw enough success for him to be named one of the N.B.A.’s 50 greatest players, a complementarity of teammates and coach failed to materialize, and he never came close to showcasing his skills in the service of a championship.

Over the 800 pages in these books, despite tales of drinking, vegetarianism and interest in extraterrestrials, Pete Maravich the man remains something of a mystery. Perhaps that’s because he was a mystery to himself, constantly searching before his post-career embrace of Christianity. His innate basketball talent was manifest so early in life — he once said, “There isn’t anything I did at L.S.U. or in the N.B.A. I couldn’t do at 13” — that the young man was the sum of his basketball feats, which he all but admitted late in life when he described that earlier self as “a basketball android.”

What may be a revelation here is the portrait that emerges of Press Maravich, who might stereotypically be viewed as merely riding his son’s remarkable skills to the L.S.U. head coaching job. Kriegel is particularly good at offering a corrective, and the most successful part of his book describes the elder Maravich’s hardscrabble upbringing in the Serbian immigrant enclave of Aliquippa, Pa., a company town where nearly everyone worked for the steel producer Jones & Laughlin. These vivid pages follow Press as he masters basketball in a church gym, stars in college and in the fledgling pro game, serves as a Navy flier, and works his way up the high school and college coaching ranks by forming teams of players as hard-nosed and hardheaded as he was. “Press didn’t recruit ability,” Kriegel writes. “He recruited desire. He wanted guys who loved the game as much as he did, who shared his confusion of basketball with salvation.”

At basketball backwaters like Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia and the football powerhouse Clemson, his undersize teams became so well drilled in his theories of tenacious defense and meticulous execution that the legendary U.C.L.A. coach John Wooden often sought him out for advice. “They were an odd couple,” Kriegel writes, “Wooden measured and modest while Press was loud and profane.” In both books, Press emerges as a full, flawed but appealing man, driven and tender, boastful and loving. “Press was one of the greatest, most entertaining guys I’ve ever met,” an L.S.U. administrator says in “Maravich.” But Press’s formidable basketball mind became mush when his son was involved. “He had ... become obsessed with Pete’s numbers,” a former assistant coach says in “Pistol.” “He had gone from being one of the greatest coaches in the game to the coach of the greatest player in the game.”

In the end, reading about Maravich the son is like reading about Gale Sayers, the incomparable Chicago Bears running back: it mostly makes you want to watch those precious old films, to witness with your own eyes the impossible moves. That’s why the most exciting part of either of these books for me was in an appendix to “Maravich” under the “Selected References” section, titled “Video”: “Games: 1967 L.S.U. at Tennessee; 1968 L.S.U. at Georgia,” and so on. Out there somewhere is Maravich in context.

Jay Jennings, a former college basketball reporter for Sports Illustrated, is a frequent contributor to the Book Review.