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Sam Smith

Born: 1948 in Brooklyn, New York
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Since October, 2008 sports journalist Sam Smith has been doing all his writing and continuing his popular NBA column exclusively on the the Chicago Bulls' web site, Bulls. com.

Biography: Sam Smith covered the Bulls and the NBA for the Chicago Tribune for 25 years. He is the author of the best selling The Jordan Rules, which was top ten on the New York Times Bestseller List for three months. Smith served as president of the Professional Basketball Writers Association for four terms, a feat no one else has accomplished. He also served on committees for the NBA and The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.


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Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: asksam@bulls.com
Sam Smith on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=sam+smith


Selected Titles

Second coming :
ISBN: 0061094552 OCLC: 36079522

HarperPaperbacks, New York : 1996.

The Jordan rules /
ISBN: 0671796666 OCLC: 32551125

Pocket Books, New York : ©1994.

Tells how the Chicago Bulls basketball team came together to win the 1991 NBA championship.

 

 

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