Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball.
He slept on the floor of a park regular\'s apartment, observing, questioning, traveling, playing with, and eventually coaching a ragtag group of local teenagers whose hopes.
Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the Playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush.
Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball