Description I like a good story well told.
That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell myself.
Mark Twain.
This is the impetus for this book.
I'm a story teller.
The fact that the stories unveiled here are about professional basketball players and coaches merely raises the level of interest.
We are a society that worships at the feet of celebrity.
Right or wrong the images and glorification of these celebrities is normally all we are permitted to see.
7 Foot Man-Eating Chicken is designed to take the reader a little deeper.
To see famous and borderline famous athletes and coaches as real people with real attributes and real flaws.
In other words, they are just like us, only a foot or so taller.
After all sports were created originally just for exercise.
Back in 1891 when Dr.
James Naismith invented the game of basketball I suspect he never thought it would become the multi billion Big Business we see today.
Certainly the thought of his students playing as a form of Entertainment for anyone but themselves never popped into his mind.
Things have clearly morphed into those areas.
If someone sees an opportunity to make a little cash off something, there's no harm in that.
If you put out a product that is interesting enough so that folks will pay to see it, that's terrific.
Some of my observations revolve around the disingenuous way these sporting events are being marketed.
We can't even tell where the marketing ends and the games begin.
This nicely brings us to the very title of this book.
In 1841, P.
Barnum, who is possibly the greatest showman in our history, purchased Scudder's American Museum.
Located in New York City at the corner of Broadway and Ann Street, it was renamed Barnum's American Museum.
He owned and operated it until 1865 when it burnt to the ground in one of the most spectacular fires in New York City history.
Barnum filled it with many strange exhibits and educational attractions.
There were dioramas, panoramas, scientific instruments,.
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