Mr. All-Around : The Life of Tom Gola.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword, by Bill Raftery -- Introduction -- 1. 3rd and Lindley -- 2. La Salle College High School -- 3. La Salle College: 1952 NIT Championship and 1953 Season -- 4. 1954 NCAA Champions -- 5. 1955: Gola versus K.C. Jones and Bill Russell -- 6. Love Letters and Wildwood -- 7. Gola to the NBA -- 8. Uncle Sam Called -- 9. San Francisco and a New York Knicks State of Mind -- 10. The "Behind the Iron Curtain" Tour -- Photographs -- 11. Gola Becomes Head Coach at La Salle -- 12. Gola's Political Career Begins -- 13. They're Younger, They're Tougher, and Nobody Owns Them -- 14. 1973 City Controller Reelection -- 15. Tom Gola for Mayor -- 16. One Call to Superman -- 17. The Legacy of Number 15 -- 18. A Call from the Hall -- 19. Gola at Work and at Home -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. Correspondence -- Appendix 2. Statistics -- Sources -- Index.