Edwin R Sasportas

Echoes From Rucker Park Edwin R Sasportas

A personal journey back to a time when stars from professional basketball leagues regularly battled local playground heroes on Harlem's legendary Rucker Park court. This work provides player profiles and rare statistical summaries from those epic battles of the 1968-1973 period when a revered playground art form caught the attention of a wider, urban basketball audience. For sports fans, it's a look back at basketball history and to a special time and place where players put their pride and reputations on the line on long-ago Harlem summer weekends.