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by John McNamara (Author), Gary Williams (Foreword by), Andrea Chamblee (Afterword by)
In The Capital of Basketball, John McNamara offers the first-ever comprehensive look at the great high school players, teams, and coaches that make the DC metropolitan area second to none in its contributions to the game. This fascinating, highly-illustrated history is perfect for basketball fans or anyone interested in Washington, DC history.
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John McNamara, staff writer and award-winning journalist for the Annapolis Capital newspaper, spent over 30 years covering local, college, and professional sports. He reported on everything from state high school basketball championships to the Final Four. John McNamara was one of five employees of the Annapolis Capital who were gunned down in a mass shooting at the newspaper on June 28, 2018.Among many other honors, he was one of Time Magazine's Persons of the Year for 2018.
Andrea Chamblee, John McNamara's widow, covered high school basketball for her community paper and atteneded over 500 college and high school games in the DC Metro Area with the best play-by-play man she ever met.
David Elfin has covered local sports for most of the last four decades while writing seven books on Washington sports and serving on the DC Sports Hall of Fame selection committee.
Author Biography
Gary Williams (Naismith Hall of Fame inductee 2014) began his coaching career as a graduate assistant for the Terrapins in the fall of 1968, after playing at the University of Maryland. The young coach moved up the coaching ranks taking positions at American University, Boston College, and Ohio State before returning to Maryland to start the decade of the nineties where the Terrapins captured the program's first ever NCAA national championship in basketball. Williams won more than 600 games in his career at four different universities, but for the coach who played at Maryland and returned to his alma mater more than 20 years later, victory never tasted so sweet as that 2002 championship.
