"So Many Books...So Little Time"

Some of the Library's newly-acquired books that have been highlighted on Colonie's Cable Channel 17 show called "So Many Books..So Little Time."

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

James Naismith: The Man Who Invented Basketball

Rob Rains is a former National League beat writer for USA Today's Baseball Weekly and for three years covered the St. Louis Cardinals for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.  He is the  author or co-author of autobiographies or biographies of Tony La Russa, Ozzie Smith, Mark McGwire, Jack Buck, Red Schoendienst and many other sports celebrities.

Hellen Carpenter is the granddaughter of James Naismith. For more than 40 years she had in her possession more than 200 documents from Naismith's files which were instrumental in crafting this biography.
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