Favorite Books
from Throughout My Life
98: Backboard Magic,* 1949,
by Howard M. Brier (1903–1969)
A book on basketball I read—
Oh, in the Fifties (so I think)—
A spring from which I loved to drink:
This novel’s story filled my head.
A kid who was not good enough
To make his hometown high school team—
The sad destruction of his dream.
But then he finds he has the stuff
In a new school (they had to move),
Where a new coach and a new way
Enable him to start, to play,
To find his very special groove.
And guess who their opponent is
In the state roundball tournament?
(I do not need to give a hint?)
And guess who proves to be a whiz?
I loved those sports books, way back when.
I read them countless times, of course.
And learned about the skill and force
And about what might have been.**
*a YA title
** and wasn’t
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