Scoreboard: Books by our sports heroes create healthy competition on the bookshelves

Books by our sports heroes create healthy competition on the bookshelves

America Above the Rim: Basketball Jones edited by Todd Boyd and Kennith L. Shropshire New York University Press, November 2000, $18.95, ISBN 0-814-71316-5

A compendium of wisdom on the game which helped define the 20th century and will no doubt define the 21st. Basketball is the top aspiration for generations of black boys-the source of massive wealth or empty hoop dreams.

Black Stars of Professional Wrestling by Julian L.D. Shabazz Awesome Records, 1999, $14.94 ISBN 1-839-68003-7

Focusing on the longtime prejudices and stereotype of those performers by the industry's promoters, …