This book is about a professional basketball player, Connie Hawkins, but if is also about American athletics. The hope and dispair of the ghetto schoolyard, the cutthroat college recruiting, the camaraderie and dissension in the locker room, the gambling, scandals, the blacklists, the legal battles - Hawkins has been through them all. Foul! is Connie Hawkins' story, a meticulously documented, remarkably candid biography of one of basketballs greatest athletes. A compelling portrait of a unique and perceptive black man, it is also a behind-the-scenes look at basketball.