Tag: Basketball

• Becoming Caitlin Clarke

  

  “There is no Caitlin Clark without Iowa,” writes Howard Megdal in his recently released biography “Becoming Caitlin Clarke: The Unknown Origin Story of a Modern Basketball Superstar” (Triumph Books 2025). And while that may be somewhat puzzling, it isn’t when Megdal explains the history of the sport. The game of basketball was invented in 1891…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  October 26, 2025

  #books, #BookTok, Non-fiction, Sports

  #books, Basketball, Caitlin Clark, Howard Megdal, Non-fiction, Sports, Triumph Publishing

• By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream

  

  “My birth was planned around Judaism and basketball,” writes Dan Grunfeld in the opening paragraph of his book. “It’s an appropriate testament to what I was inheriting. When I was born in 1984, my dad was an NBA player for the New York Knicks. My parents scheduled my C-section delivery to take place between two…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  April 11, 2022

  #books, Autobiography, Sports

  #books, "By the Grace of the Game", Anyu Grunfeld, Basketball, Dan Grunfeld, Ernie Grunfeld, Holocaust, Hungarian, Judaism, NBA, Romania, Sports, Triumph Books, World War II