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Basketball's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Hoops' Outrageous Dunkers, Incredible Buzzer-Beaters, and Other Oddities

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Floyd Conner has compiled one of the finest basketball trivia books ever published. It covers a wide variety of topics ranging over many levels of basketball play and participation. The most attention-getting, eye-popping and utterly unbelievable ( but true ) feat mentioned in this wonderful basketball book is the fact that the Swedish schoolboy Mats Wermelin once scored 272 points in a single basketball game in which his team won 272-0. It would have improved the listing of that accomplishment if the author had given the reader a detailed statistical breakdown analysis of that 272 point game. What were the circumstances of that game? How many points did Mats Wermelin score in each quarter of that game? What were his field goal and free throw percentages during that game? What was the seasonal scoring average of points-per-game by Mats Wermelin that year he scored a one-game total of 272 points? What occurred to Mats in his life thereafter that mind-boggling game, etc.?
All basketball oddity and anecdotal buffs should possess a copy of this infinitely intriguing book.

Book was fascinating and included many statistics and facts about basketball, both professional and college levels, that were VERY interesting

This book of top 10 lists is a basketball fans dream; the lists cover everything from the usual to the unusual. Some examples of lists are:

*) Greatest college players
*) Playing politics - basketball players that ran for public office
*) Touching all bases - basketball players that also played baseball
*) Field goals - basketball players that also played football
*) The name game - players such as "Tony Dunkin" with names that are linked to basketball
*) Small packages - successful players that were less than 5'10" in height.
*) College's greatest games - a list of the 10 best college games ever played
*) Like father, like son - a list of father-son combinations that played in the NBA.

The best sports facts books are fun to read and this is one of them.