and out the autobiographical novel by John Fultz, icon
The Virtus Bologna 70 including basketball, music, love and hippie culture
Mark Taron
Framingham, Mass., is the city that gave birth to John Leslie Fultz . It is just three quarters of an hour's drive from Lowell, the birthplace of another prominent Bostonian, the legendary Jack Kerouac . This may explain the fact that even so "Cochise", the icon of basketball in Bologna was reborn in the early seventies, he ropes in a sort of "On the Road" Po, set right around that world of baskets and of Americans who the dreams of dancing on our parquet.
Fultz had in the drawer for some time, this book. And now, finally, will show the people of basketball, which in Bologna he has certainly not forgotten. Although it is not a book on the sport. He also talks about basketball, but is primarily a social history, the story of an era, the early seventies, lived in Italy, between Bologna and Varese (especially Bologna) and seen through the eyes of an American boy fell into our country after coming to the brink of big dreams. That for a basketball player is always the same: the limestone areas of the NBA.
John was touched by that destiny can only. Really touched. But when Red Shaus offered the minimum wage with no guarantees, even with the glorious tank Lakers, thanked him and took the road of Italy. Its history goes
Italian from Varese, and a European Cup touched by foreign extracampionato, and Bologna, where he became a pillar of the Virtus Porelli but also opened another life, linking university students arrived in town from the States, discovering the long hair through which he earned the nickname of Cochise ("My father always said that my grandmother had Indian origins, so it seemed appropriate). And marrying the ideals of pacifism, freedom of thought and action. Welcoming into his home, with the generosity of those ideals, boys and girls are often attracted by its reputation. Life or Something "on the road, but never forget the commitments on the floor, where" Gionmitraglia "knew how to excite: his duel with the" Baron "Gary Schull was the beginning of the great challenges of Virtus and Fortitudo, and did find the Bologna passion for basketball. He and the "Baron" the foundation of the City of baskets. Today
John Fultz has passed sixty, an English teacher in Naples, has a son (Robert), who also dressed in the blue shirt. He has a talent for teaching young people that often has not been exploited optimally. But it also has a slice of life to tell, and that life concerns us. His "I called Cochise" found in the passion of LGS Sportlab bank, agency Lorenza Seragnoli War, and the publishing house of Roberto Minerva Mugavero, who wrote his book in the series "the wire": Why is his a history of sport, but also of loss and rebirth within. And through that throws a great message for the benefit of future generations. Not only those who live basketball.
The Information of Bologna, January 2, 2011
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