Description:Chapters: Ned Irish, James L. Dolan, Anucha Browne Sanders, Glen Grunwald, Donnie Walsh, Dave Checketts. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edward S. "Ned" Irish (May 6, 1905 in Lake George, New York January 21, 1982) was a basketball promoter and one of the key figures in popularizing professional basketball. He was the president of the New York Knicks from 1946 to 1974. He was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1964. A pioneer in the late 1930s in the big-time promotion of college basketball, Ned Irish took the sport from small venues to Madison Square Garden. He also founded the New York Knicks and assisted in the organization of the National Basketball Association. For his part in popularizing basketball, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1964. Irish grew up near Lake George, New York. He had already launched his business career at age 10. Following in his late father's footsteps, he earned money by selling sodas and newspapers and by renting boats. His mother, a practical nurse, then moved the family to Brooklyn. As a student at Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School, Irish covered prep and amateur sports for three New York dailies, managed the school's swimming and tennis teams, was class president, was a member of the Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity and worked in the school cafeteria. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania as a business major, where he worked for the school paper and edited the monthly literary magazine. To earn money he sold sheet music and organized the university's first student job-placement bureau. While he seemed destined to succeed in a career in business, Irish grew more interested in journalism, working as a reporter for the Philadelphia Record and as a stringer for ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=170187We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with New York Knicks Executives: Ned Irish, James L. Dolan, Anucha Browne Sanders, Glen Grunwald, Donnie Walsh, Dave Checketts. To get started finding New York Knicks Executives: Ned Irish, James L. Dolan, Anucha Browne Sanders, Glen Grunwald, Donnie Walsh, Dave Checketts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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34
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Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1157020313
New York Knicks Executives: Ned Irish, James L. Dolan, Anucha Browne Sanders, Glen Grunwald, Donnie Walsh, Dave Checketts
Description: Chapters: Ned Irish, James L. Dolan, Anucha Browne Sanders, Glen Grunwald, Donnie Walsh, Dave Checketts. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edward S. "Ned" Irish (May 6, 1905 in Lake George, New York January 21, 1982) was a basketball promoter and one of the key figures in popularizing professional basketball. He was the president of the New York Knicks from 1946 to 1974. He was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1964. A pioneer in the late 1930s in the big-time promotion of college basketball, Ned Irish took the sport from small venues to Madison Square Garden. He also founded the New York Knicks and assisted in the organization of the National Basketball Association. For his part in popularizing basketball, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1964. Irish grew up near Lake George, New York. He had already launched his business career at age 10. Following in his late father's footsteps, he earned money by selling sodas and newspapers and by renting boats. His mother, a practical nurse, then moved the family to Brooklyn. As a student at Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School, Irish covered prep and amateur sports for three New York dailies, managed the school's swimming and tennis teams, was class president, was a member of the Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity and worked in the school cafeteria. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania as a business major, where he worked for the school paper and edited the monthly literary magazine. To earn money he sold sheet music and organized the university's first student job-placement bureau. While he seemed destined to succeed in a career in business, Irish grew more interested in journalism, working as a reporter for the Philadelphia Record and as a stringer for ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=170187We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with New York Knicks Executives: Ned Irish, James L. Dolan, Anucha Browne Sanders, Glen Grunwald, Donnie Walsh, Dave Checketts. To get started finding New York Knicks Executives: Ned Irish, James L. Dolan, Anucha Browne Sanders, Glen Grunwald, Donnie Walsh, Dave Checketts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.