Reviews for Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History

The average rating for Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-08 00:00:00 Shane Connor The book asphalt gods is a great read that all basketball fanatics will love. It tells the history behind the Rucker Park Tournament and the man, Holcomb Rucker, who started it all. The park is famous for hosting streetball legends and NBA superstars such as Dr. J and Kevin Durant. It has also hosted top college and high school players. The park is known to all true basketball lovers and the man behind it all created the tournament for the kids.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-11-17 00:00:00 Matthew Mahalchick An Excellent First-Hand Account Of A Magical Time In Playground Basketball History — NYC Style! Having spent a good part of my pre-teen and teen years and early 20s in various playgrounds in Queens, NY as a basketball legend — at least in my own mind, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Asphalt Gods by Vincent Mallozzi. In this book, Mallozzi brings to life again in a very nostalgic and memorable way the inside story of Harlem’s legendary Holcombe Rucker, the playground named after him, and the tournament he created In the 1950s that, over the years, became world famous. In Asphalt Gods, Mallozzi will make you feel that you are right there on the court playing alongside dozens of colorfully nicknamed young men from Harlem and surrounding NYC neighborhoods whose exploits in the Rucker Tournaments, often against multimillionaire NBA superstars, have made them playground divinity/“Asphalt Gods”. A few of the “Gods” you’ll meet (or be re-introduced to) are Herman “Helicopter” Knowings, Earl “The Goat” Manigault, Joe, “The Destroyer” Hammond and Richard “Pee Wee” Kirkland; and you’ll get to “see“ how they express their freestyle of “basketball art” against such pro immortals as Wilt Chamberlain, Julius Irving, Walt Frazier, Earl “The Pearl” Monroe, CaL Ramsey, Satch Sanders, Allen Iverson, Stephon Marbury, to name a few. If you, too, are a playground basketball legend in your own mind and/or just a lover of the game, Asphalt Gods is a book I highly recommend to you.