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With ten NBA scoring titles and six championship rings, Michael Jordan may be the greatest basketball player who ever lived. Exciting photos and clear, dramatic text make this easy-reading biography perfect for the very youngest fans. ... Read more

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This action-packed autobiography offers the inside story of basketball superstar Michael Jordan's phenomenal career. "An attractive book for young basketball enthusiasts."--School Library Journal. Full-color action photos and cartoons. ... Read more

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Michael Jordan represents the high mark on theevolutionary chart of basketball greatness. Will there ever be aplayer to eclipse his standards? If so, when and how will such aplayer be discovered. The task of evaluating predictions about futuregreatness is a difficult one indeed. And without an examination of thepast, such attempts are futile. Enter Searching for Michael Jordan. Inan effort to analyze the predictions of those great players of yearspast anointed the next great phenom, this book examines the careers ofsome of the greatest high school basketball players over the pastquarter century, with interesting profiles, hard to find statistics,and rare photos. Searching for Michael Jordan is a must read for anybasketball fan. ... Read more

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A MUST READ
If you love basketball at it's purest form you want to read this book.A must read for anyone who call themselves basketball junkies.

A Hoops Junkie's Delight
If you spent even a part of your childhood pouring over Street & Smith's high school All-American list, this is the perfect book for you. It answers the "whatever happened to" question for dozens of former can't miss prospects. Of course, as this book reveals, many of them did miss. The book is full of stats, insights and stories. For every Michael Jordan and Jason Kidd, there was an equally touted Tom Lewis and Jamie Brandon. I hope all of the players profiled in the book had as much fun playing basketball as I did reading about them. If there is a hoops fanatic on your shopping list, I promise they will be thrilled with this gem of a book.

An outstanding book for any basketball fan
As a high school hoops fanatic over the past twenty years, I was excited to find out more information about some of the best prep players I remember watching growing up.Greg Moore provides outstanding insight to the careers of some of the best.A great book that I recommend to any basketball fan.

I read cover to cover
Terrific book...I read it cover to cover, I highly recommend to any serious basketball fan, both young and old.

SEARCHING FOR MICHAEL JORDAN
I could not wait to get my hands on SFMJ and I was not disapointed. It stays within myreach for those who thinks they know more about PREP basketball than I do.

Hope to see a next addition.Sports FanHampton, VA ... Read more

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This is a story about Michael Jordan, basketball and fame by America's most celebrated sportswriter. With the perspective of a great historian, the inside knowledge of a dogged sportswriter and the love of a fan, he chronicles the Jordan era describing the transformation of the sport and the man. ... Read more

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Profiles the basketball superstar, who retired from the Chicago Bulls at age thirty, played minor league baseball, and then returned to professional basketball in 1994. ... Read more

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Detailed photos and pricing on all things Jordan,including; Cards, Jerseys, Shoes, Magazines, Autographs, Space Jam,Kenner Starting Lineups, and much, much more... ... Read more

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guide for Jordan-collectors
I HAVE PLENTY OF JORDAN COLLECTOR'S BOOK AND THIS IS THE ONE IN MY BOOKSHELF. THE COLLECTION IS NOT UP-DATE BECAUSE IT WAS PUBLISHED 2 YRS AGO, (MJ PRODUCE A LOT OF ITEMS AFTER RETIRE TO MAKE $$). BUT IT IS REALLY WORTH TO READ FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO $ TO BUY ALL THE COLLECTOR ITEMSLIKE ME. ... Read more

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The author of The Jordan Rules chronicles the sequence of events that brought Michael Jordan back to the NBA and to his present position as the Bulls's most valuable and demanding player. Reprint. ... Read more

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A very revealing book
I agree with back and forth. People who slam the book are biased. MJ has a good and bad side, and the people who whine are probably his fans or have shares in his company. The problem is players from different eras can't be compared. How do you compare Oscar Robertson to Earvin Johnson? You can't...but you can compare them relative to the players in their era, to players they played against, and compare their relative greatness to the relative greatness to the players from other eras. Compare Michael to others relative to his contribution of others...don't just compare scoring, or Dominique Wilkins would be surely better than Bill Russell...only a misinformed or ignorant NBA basketball fan would think something as preposterous as that. Kudos for Sam Smith and taking off the kid gloves. If the book is all trash journalism, why didn't Michael sue for slander or defamation of character? There must be some truth to it.

back and forth
I have mixed feelings about Michael Jordan.On the one hand, he is a great athlete.I respect his work ethic.He has turned in a number of great performances and is no doubt one of the greatest to have ever played the game of basketball.

There is a flipside.Michael Jordan got allkinds of special treatment while he was in the NBA.He was the firstplayer I noticed who was granted all kinds of trips to the charity stripebecause of unbelievably, ticky tack calls.He scored at least ten points agame at the free throw line from bogus calls.It was great when there wasa picture session for 'greats of the game' with Larry Bird, Magic Johnson,and Michael Jordan.Magic told Larry not to stand too close to Michael orthey might call a foul.In front of reporters and television viewers, thatwas a classic comment by Magic.I believe Mike got 99% of all calls in hisfavor because he was such a cash cow for the NBA.Dominique Wilkins wasrobbed of a slam dunk championship when Mike scored a perfect 50 doing thesame dunk Dr. J did years before.I doubt Dr. J ever received a perfect 50for it.Dominique's dunk was much more impressive, and he received a 49.5. Please.Mike got in a fight with Reggie Miller, and only Miller gotsuspended at first.Only after there was an outcry did Mike get suspended. How are Mike's punches different?Mike elbowed Kevin Johnson to theground for all to see, and Kevin was called for blocking!

I am not tooimpressed that the bulls beat the lakers in the NBA finals.Magic wasdouble teamed every game every minute he was in.On top of that, JamesWorthy and Byron Scott were injured.Magic and Larry never won threechampionships in a row because the competition, teams, and players in the80s were much better than the nineties.Luc Longley, Will Perdue, BillCartwright, or Bill Wennington stopping Kareem?Ha!

Sport Magazinerecently had a piece on the ten greatest moments and ten greatest playersever in the NBA.Mike was ranked number one all time player.Kudos toMike for mentioning in 'For the love of the game' that to pick a"greatest ever" is impossible because of all the different erasand evolutions of basketball.The nineties bulls were given three of theten greatest moments in NBA history.This is just more Mike bias.Give mea break.There are hundreds of classic and amazing moments in NBA history. One of the moments picked was Mike beating the Jazz in the final minutesof his last game.He put his hand on Bryon Russel's backside and shovedhim out of the way.Then Mike made the game winnig shot.All eyes were onMike, but the ref did not make the obvious call.

There is also Mike'sarrogance.According to him, Wilt Chamberlain was a fluke eventhough Wiltwas a great all around player.He made a comment about Magic and Larryreaching a 'certain level of greatness' and that the two were not good ondefense.What?Are we talking about the same Larry Bird?Shaquille Onealis also much better and much improved than Mike gives him credit for.Shaqhas turned into a solid defender, passer, and he works hard at both ends ofthe floor.

Mike's corporate poster boy behavior is laughable.He didads for AT&T and then MCI.The Wayans family is also split between thetwo companies.Mike talked about the enviroment in Rayovac ads and thenpitches hot dogs?Mike is not the only athlete who will pitch anything andeverything to make millions.I wonder if Mike has checked into Nike'slabor practices.

Players like Mike and Charles Barkley soured me ontheNBA.Charles played like a thug and got away with it because he was astar.Plus, Charles insisted on wearing number 34 at Philadelphiaeventhough it was retired for NBA great Billy Cunningham.The startreatment and inflated egos has grown old, and that has turned a lot ofpeople off to sports.I miss the Lakers and Celtics match ups of the1980s.

Michael Jordan book review
"Second Coming:The Strange Odyssey of Michael Jordan - from Courtside to Home Plate and Back Again," by Sam Smith, is a biogarphy about Michael Jordan.It starts out a little before he won his first NBAchampionship with the Chicago Bulls.It tells about the seasons leading upto his retirement in October of 1993.Through that time, the author talksabout the next two seasons.It talks about Jordans' personality at thetime, and some of the problems he was having to deal with.It profilesJordans' gambling troubles and the troubles he was having with the media. This book is similar to the book "Tiger Woods:The Makings of aChampion."These two books are very similar because of their genre. They are both biographies about famous sports stars.The only differencebetween the two is that the Tiger Woods book talks more about his childhoodthan the Michael Jordan book does.I thought that this book was very good. I liked it because I really liked the structure of it.I thought that itwas really easy to read because it goes in a logical order.I think thatsince it has good order, this serves as a good model for writing.Therereally is not much imagery in the book because it is a biography.Ithought that this book was very good because it tells a lot of good stuffabout Michael Jordan'sprofessional career.I think that one thing thatthis book lacked was information on his personal life.I think that Icould have realated better to the story had there been more personal infoon him.I think that anybody who likes to follow Michael Jordan wouldenjoy this book very much.Overall I liked this book a lot and I hope toread more books by this author.

Tabloid trash disguised as sports journalism

There is a type of sports fan endemic to Chicago: guys whose formative years spanned decades of losing seasons, guys who never learned the ups of fandom, just the downs, until the only joy they could take from professional sports was the cynic's pleasure of having their low expectations fulfilled.Guys, I admit it, like me.When a winner does finally appear in a city like Chicago, these fans react like albino fish brought up into the sun from the lightless depths, blinking uncomprehendingly: they know something is happening, but nothing in their experience tellsthem how to react.The good news is that most of us recover from the shock after a year or two, and that most of us don't become professional sportswriters.Then again, there's Sam Smith.

Smith's "Second Coming" purports to be a hard-nosed examination of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls during Jordan's "retirement" from the NBA following the death of his father, Jordan's travails as a minor-league baseball player and subsequent return to basketball, with (at first) less-than spectacular results.A sequel to "The Jordan Rules", Smith's first uncensored-behind-the-scenes look at the Bulls during their early-'90's title runs, this book is both less shocking -- you only have to open any week's sports pages to realize that today's pro atheletes are not choirboys -- and more mean-spirited than its predecessor.

If Sam Smith were an NBA player, he'd be Bill Laimbeer:moderately talented, but cursed with a congenital inability to pass up a cheap shot (Smith takes gratuitous aim at everyone from the Bulls' TV announcers to Madonna) and the obnoxious habit of feigning bafflement that anyone would take offense (Smith is shocked, *shocked* that Jordan and others had less-than positive reactions to "The Jordan Rules").

There's no doubt that many aspects of professional sports are open to criticism, and Michael Jordan is no exception.But "Second Coming" provides little criticism and lots of tabloid-style dirt-dishing.Smith reports the facts of Jordan's gambling sprees (by far the most legitimate fan concern covered), but then sabotages his own credibility by mentioning every scurrilous rumor, most of them proven to be false, that followed those events and the shooting of James Jordan.I held on as Smith hammered away at his theme -- that Jordan was too old, too selfish, and too poor a leader for his comeback to be successful -- waiting for the "bonus chapter" (added to the paperback edition) on the Bulls' historic '95-'96 season.How would Smith explain his remarkable lack of predictive skills?He wouldn't, preferring instead to concentrate on the antics of Dennis Rodman.

If you want to know more about the dark side of professional sports, and maybe even do something about it, read Mike Lupica's scorching fan manifesto "Mad as Hell".If you want to read about Jordan and the Bulls, buy Bob Greene's sublime "Hang Time" and its sequel "Rebound".Lupica may be a bit overinflated and Greene a little too uncritical of his subject, but at least neither of them have forgotten the reasons why we started watching the game in the first place ... Read more

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Chronicling the career of the famous former basketball star who chose to enter minor league baseball, an examination of Michael Jordan's current efforts describes his successful endorsements, the response of his teammates, and the reasons behind his decision. ... Read more

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Interesting book
Here's something a little different...this covers the gap between the time Michael announces his retirement in October 1993 to the time he rejoins the Bulls. A pretty interesting book, but as a previous reviewer mentioned, it chronicles the author's frustration to get access to Michael. Michael's baseball experiment was probably fun for him, and granted it didn't go too well, but at least he enjoyed himself trying to be a pro calibre baseball player, which clearly he is not. I think MJ just wanted a break from hoops to do something else and come back when he wasupset about the Major League Baseball lockout in 1994, which I think played a major factor in his decision to return to the NBA.

This could have been a great book.
The title was so promising!But I was seriously disappointed with it.Unfortunately the author couldn't get access to Jordan.He wasn't even able to obtain the credentials to just hang around in the locker room afterthe game like every other reporter.The interviews he did get were fromreluctant sources who say the same thing over and over:'he can do it withsome effort' and 'he's such a nice guy'.Unfortunately since there isn'ttoo much substance to this book the author resorts to excruciatingdescriptions of the scenery of various minor league towns that he visits,and little tidbits about his visits with family.Without it I estimatethat this book could be at least 50 pages shorter. Another thing thatlack of material forces is his constant (but actually quite interesting)writing about his relations with baseball's "higher ups" It atleast makes for some interesting behind the scenes reading.

Now, as forwhat the author did right (why I even gave it 2 stars): He calls it like hesees it.While admiring Jordan for his physical ability, he comes rightout and makes sure you know about his weak points.His "sellingout" is discussed at length, as is his strange, but constant, refusalto acknowledge his race or take any sort of personal or political stance on*anything*- even his own father's death.

This 220 page escapade isbasically about the treatment Patton gets from various personnel in theBirmingham Barron's front office, his ongoing war with Jordan's agent andjust basically what it's like to be Jim Patton writing this book.

Withmore access and more time this book could have been a great analysis ofJordan, his motives, his family and his career in general.Patton is a*very* good writer and his analysis of many of the issues surroundingJordan was superb. The last 60 pages really brings home what a good bookthis could have been!Maybe with the right editor, Patton could haverestructured the book and had a serious hit on his hands!

If you arelooking for a little behind the scenes info on agents, minor leauge GM'sand the life of a writer while working on a book, with a bit of actualanalysis on Jordan thrown in, this book is a big winner.Otherwise justcheck it out at the library.

exeptional read!!!
not at all what i expected.i started reading and two hours later i was through the whole book.jim patton did a wonderful job of making you feel like you experienced what he wrote about.very enjoyable to read. ... Read more

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Describes the life and career of Michael Jordan, including his childhood in North Carolina, involvement in sports, success with the Chicago Bulls, retirement from basketball, second career in baseball, and triumphant return to the Bulls. ... Read more

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Michael Jordan



I picked this book because it looked really interesting and when I read it I realized that the book was better than I thought it would be.

Michael Jordan's life was both happy and said. He had a lot of money but he was still bothered by media. It was ridiculous when people start making rumors about his dad dieing because he was involved in drug botched drug deal and some said he faked his death and he was still alive.

I am still curious to know exactly why Michael's "dad" died.Was the rumors right? Was he killed because his son Michael Jordan was gambling too much?

I really recommend this book to anyone who loves or likes basketball and everyone who have heard about basketball legend "Michael Air Jordan". This book doesn't contain stuff about drugs or anything that influence people bad way. IT'S FOR EVERYONE.

Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan is one of my favorite books and it only has 7 chapters. If you want to know how Jordan became the NBA'S best player, you should read this book. You can learn about his family. This book shows how he gets through his childhood, high school, college, basketball and baseball careers!!!
Michael Jordan has lead the NBA in scoring over 5 times and he has over 3 MVP (Most Valuable Player) awards. He has scored over 20,000 points in his career! The NBA says when he retires he will be an NBA Legend.
It's the best book! The thing I liked about this book is how they described his childhood and his family.The thing I didn't like about the book is they made it too short! In this book you will see how interesting basketball is.I give it 5 stars and 2 thumbs up. Be sure to read this book.
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A selection of essays, articles, and tributes--by David Halberstam, Bob Greene, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Chuck Daly, and John Edgar Wideman, among others--celebrate the life and phenomenal career of basketball superstar Michael Jordan. Original. ... Read more

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Follows the life of the high-scoring Chicago Bulls player who could not get on his high school basketball team because he was too short. Includes advice on setting and reaching goals. ... Read more

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Good, but not quite enough
I did enjoy this book somewhat because I love Michael Jordan. But it didn't really connect the reader and Michael Jordan like I good book should. Not enough details I guess, or just too many little ones. But I think this is an enjoyable book for a younger person. ... Read more

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A brief career biography of the talented, seemingly unstoppable, Chicago Bull. ... Read more

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Describes the life and basketball career of the high-scoring player who led the Chicago Bulls to four NBA championships. ... Read more

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A great book
This was a perfect deal. Clear description and a shipment with no problems. Communication was not a problem.

Title is Misleading
This is NOT a book about Michael Jordan.He is only vaguely mentioned on a few pages. If you are looking for Johnny Kerr's autobiography, then this would meet your needs. However, I bought it for my husband, a MichaelJordan fan, and we were disappointed.

Excellent.
this is a fun run back through the great old Bulls stories, with RedKerr's special take on the happenings.

Roland Lazenby

Before Michael and the Dynasty, there was "Big Red".
Terry Pluto relays, some hilarious stories as only Bulls 1st Coach, Johnny "Red" Kerr can tell.The first Bulls parade in Chicago was not as large as one would expect, it consisted of a flatbed truck, Coach Johnny "RED" Kerr, the team owner and a real live Bull. No Kidding!!

Enjoy stories of banging with Wilt Chamberlin, trying to figure out Bill Russell, how "Red" would have guarded Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and the Genesis of Da Bulls Dynasty.

Johnny "Red" Kerr is a master story teller.

Read and Laugh on. ... Read more

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A dual biography of two star players for the Chicago Bulls, describing their separate basketball careers and how they have performed as teammates. ... Read more

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Describes the life and career of the high-scoring player for the Chicago Bulls. ... Read more