Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich
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| Author: | Mark Kriegel |
| Publisher: | Free Press |
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| Pages: | 400 |
| ISBN-10: | 743284976 |
| Category: | Array |
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Chapter 1 Special Opportunity Petra (Press) Maravich, Pete's Father, was the youngest child of Sara and Vajo Maravich who came to Pittsburgh from Dreznica, Serbia. Press's father died when he was only 3 years old while working for Jones & Laughlin, a Pittsburgh steel company. His mother soon remarried Djuro Kosanovich. The family moved to the company town of Alquippa, where Press would grow up. The area was populated and segregated by nationality: Serbs, Corations, Italians; Germans, Irish, and English; Slovaks, Ukrainians, Poles, and Blacks. The town was very poor and very dirty from the steel furnaces that ran around the clock. Press was a slow learner and was a member of Catherine Thompson's Special Opportunity class. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Anderton ran the Logstown Mission nearby--a Presbytery. The mission doubled as a basketball gym and Anderton allowed the kids to play as much as they wanted as long as they attended Sunday School. Press immediately loved the game. One friend recalls, "He'd do anything to get a basketball in his hands, anything for another couple of hours of playing ball in that Mission."
Chapter 2 Mr. Basketball
Chapter 3 Pro Ball
Chapter 4 The Cult of Press
Chapter 5 Country Gentelmen
Chapter 6 The Basketball Gene
Chapter 7 The Devil in Ronnie Montini
Chapter 8 "Pistol Pete"
Chapter 9 Changing the Game
Chapter 10 The Deep End
Chapter 11 King of the Cow Palace
Chapter 12 Showtime
Chapter 13 One of Us
Chapter 14 Marked Man
Chapter 15 The Blackhawks
Chapter 16 The Unberable Whiteness of Being Pete
Chapter 17 Take Me
Chapter 18 Smothered
Chapter 19 All That Jazz
Chapter 20 The Loser
Chapter 21 Take Me, Part 2
Chapter 22 Amazing Grace
Chapter 23 Patrimony
