Also by Alexander Wolff

Big Game, Small World is my sixth book on basketball. I wrote the first two, The In-Your-Face Basketball Book and The Back-in-Your-Face Guide to Pick-Up Basketball, with Chuck Wielgus. Both treated the playground game.

In 1990 I teamed up with Armen Keteyian, whom you may have seen on CBS and HBO, to write the New York Times bestseller Raw Recruits, which examined college basketball recruiting.

My next two books—100 Years of Hoops (reissued as Basketball: A History of the Game) and A March for Honor—were coffee-table efforts that looked at the game’s first century and at Indiana high-school ball, respectively.

All of my previous books are out of print, but most will pop up on used-book Web sites from time to time, including Alibris, Bibliofind, and Bookfinder.

Or you may find them by using the out-of-print search services of such on-line booksellers as Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

To view an archive of The Hoop Life, my column on cnnsi.com, click here.