The CHRONICLES of the HOOP 1937 1968 #342156

This book is the second of three chapters and shows the rapid and furious pop-up of the main competitions in the second half of the 1930s. After the blackout of the WWII, with some excellences in neutral Latin America, in the AAU tournaments in Denver, and the abolition of the 1940 and 1944 Olympic Games, the basketball world resumed in 1946 in Geneva with EuroBasket, and saw in 1947 the birth of the Russian bear. The period is completely covered by the rivalry between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, also in basketball since 1952 at Helsinki. At the end of the 1960s, in 1966 in Santiago and in 1968 in Mexico City there will be the appearance of the Third Way of Belgrade.