BASKETBALL and Life: a collection of sing-song poetry based on growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn and a six-decades career as Official Scorer in the ABA & NBA, including works on such players as Julius "Dr. J" Erving, Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Jordan.

Utilizing the myriad of experiences and people he has met and worked with in a six-decades career as the Official Scorer for the New Jersey Nets of the NBA, Herb Turetzky has authored a collection of poems which will make the reader feel as if he/she is actually taking part in this wonderful life, going back to the beginning of the author´s involvement with basketball in the blue-collar Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. Along the way, as the author makes his readers feel almost as if th...