The Chosen Game: A Jewish Basketball History - Hardcover

Charley Rosen is a writer whose work appears regularly on Fanragsports.com. He previously worked as an NBA analyst for FOXSports.com and is the author of twenty-one sports books, including Perfectly Awful: The Philadelphia 76ers’ Horrendous and Hilarious 1972–1973 Season (Nebraska, 2014) and Crazy Basketball: A Life In and Out of Bounds (Nebraska, 2011). He has coauthored two books with NBA coach Phil Jackson.

"Packed with a lot of information in less than 200 pages of text, this book makes a good addition to the library of readers who are basketball historians or those who wish to learn more about the role of Jews in the "American" game."—Lance Smith, Guy Who Reviews Sports Books (Lance Smith Guy Who Reviews Sports Books 2018-02-22)

"A welcome addition to sports literature. . . . Rosen—a former college hoopster, pro coach, and prolific author, packs a ton of information in his compact narrative . . . . Readers familiar with Rosen's previous tomes will no doubt enjoy his witty commentary, elegant prose, and self-deprecating humor."—Joseph Dorinson, ARETE (Joseph Dorinson ARETE 2018-04-19)

"Charley Rosen . . . engages his readers in a hybrid genre text of athletics and history—an analytical intersection of religion, basketball, and Jewish-American culture. Rosen's text spans from the late 19th century, the foundation and formation of basketball, to the early 21st-century—the NBA as we now know it. Rosen's hybridized historical text can serve as an opening avenue for heightened interest from scholars of religion seeking varied accounts of Jewish-American culture."—Reading Religion (Reading Religion)

"Readers (from teens to adults) who are interested in Jewish participation in sports will find this book worthwhile."—Fred Isaac, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews (Fred Isaac Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews)

“Before basketball was the ‘city game,’ it was a ‘Jewish game.’ No one is better equipped than roundball aficionado and NBA-insider Charley Rosen to skillfully chronicle Jewish presence in the world of hoops, on and off the court.”—Jeffrey S. Gurock, author of Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports (Jeffrey S. Gurock 2017-02-24)