A Sense of Where You Are

Second Edition featuring a 1978 Addenda.
When Bill Bradley left the Princeton basketball floor for the last time, some three thousand people rose to their feet and showered him with five minutes of thundering appreciation. The applause was not confined to Princeton. By the end of his Princeton career, William Warren Bradley was clearly established as one of the best players in the records of college basketball.
John McPhee delineates for the reader the training and techniques which made Bradley the extraordinary athlete he was. This part of the book is a blueprint of superlative basketball.
But athletic prowess alone would not explain Bradley’s magnetism, which is in the quality of the man himself-his self-discipline, his rationality, his sense of responsibility. Here is the story of Bradley as he was in college, by the writer who knows Bradley best. As Rex Lardner wrote in The New York Times Book Re-view, A Sense of Where You Are is “immensely well-written, inspiring without being preachy, and contains as well the clearest analyses of Bradley’s moves, fakes and shots that have appeared in print.”