- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Rat That Got Away
- 1 Bronx Beginnings
- 2 Oil and Water: An Unlikely Marriage
- 3 Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Family
- 4 The Love of God and the Lure of the Streets
- 5 The South Bronx by Day and Night
- 6 Lost and Found: Welcome to the ′60s
- 7 The Rules of the Game
- 8 The Lessons of Sex
- 9 Gains and Losses
- 10 1963 and Me
- 11 What Women Want
- 12 The Summer of Unrest: 1964
- 13 The Streets Are Alive: Summer of ′65
- 14 Hustle and Heart, on and off Court
- 15 Becoming a Subject to the Bitch Queen Heroin
- 16 Welcome to Hell
- 17 Shifting Loyalties
- 18 The Road to The Tombs
- 19 Do the Crime, Do the Time
- 20 Judgment Day
- 21 Free at Last! Free at Last …
- 22 Cornwall Academy
- 23 Summer Schooling
- 24 Going to College
- 25 College: Round II
- 26 Passage to Europe
- 27 Homecoming
- 28 The Year of the French
- 29 A New Life in Luxembourg
- 30 Finding My Groove
- 31 Standing on Higher Ground
- Acknowledgments
Hustle and Heart, on and off Court
Hustle and Heart, on and off Court
- Chapter:
- (p.70) 14 Hustle and Heart, on and off Court
- Source:
- The Rat That Got Away
- Author(s):
ALLEN JONES
Mark Naison
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
Allen Jones began his last year at Clark Junior High in an optimistic mood. He was in the band and orchestra, he tried out and made the school basketball team in the beginning of his ninth-grade year. He started to get some serious playing experience. Nate Archibald took them to a citywide basketball tournament in the park right across the street from the Forest Projects on Caldwell Avenue and 163rd Street, where Hilton White ran a legendary basketball program. About this time, the drug trade around the Projects started to change. There was a party almost every weekend in one of the Projects around the neighborhood: in the Melrose Projects on 156th Street off Morris Avenue, the Mitchell Projects, or the Millbrook Projects. It was at one of those parties in the Millbrook Projects that he became involved in yet another incident that could have cost him his life.
Keywords: Allen Jones, Clark Junior High, basketball, Nate Archibald, basketball tournament, Forest Projects, Hilton White, drug trade, Millbrook Projects
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Rat That Got Away
- 1 Bronx Beginnings
- 2 Oil and Water: An Unlikely Marriage
- 3 Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Family
- 4 The Love of God and the Lure of the Streets
- 5 The South Bronx by Day and Night
- 6 Lost and Found: Welcome to the ′60s
- 7 The Rules of the Game
- 8 The Lessons of Sex
- 9 Gains and Losses
- 10 1963 and Me
- 11 What Women Want
- 12 The Summer of Unrest: 1964
- 13 The Streets Are Alive: Summer of ′65
- 14 Hustle and Heart, on and off Court
- 15 Becoming a Subject to the Bitch Queen Heroin
- 16 Welcome to Hell
- 17 Shifting Loyalties
- 18 The Road to The Tombs
- 19 Do the Crime, Do the Time
- 20 Judgment Day
- 21 Free at Last! Free at Last …
- 22 Cornwall Academy
- 23 Summer Schooling
- 24 Going to College
- 25 College: Round II
- 26 Passage to Europe
- 27 Homecoming
- 28 The Year of the French
- 29 A New Life in Luxembourg
- 30 Finding My Groove
- 31 Standing on Higher Ground
- Acknowledgments