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Title: A classic sports book about inner city teens and basketball.
Review: I joined Ace/Tempo Books, a paperback division of Grosset & Dunlap, as an editor back in 1976. The first hardcover book I purchased for paperback reprint was Rick Telander's "Heaven Is a Playground." I was taken by Rick's story-telling abilities, his eloquence and his love for the ghetto kids who saw basketball as their only ticket out. This was something more than a sports book. This was a book about an inner city world I knew little about, a world that Rick had experienced first hand. It was also a book I had to publish at Ace/Tempo. I am proud that I did, and I am happy to see that the book has been brought back into print after all these years. I highly recommend it.
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