Carroll hailed from New York City. Image: wwp.greenwichmeantime.com.
Jim Carroll, the author of “The Basketball Diaries,” which is widely considered one of the best basketball reads of all time, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 60.
Carroll was a ballplayer himself and starred at Trinity HS on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1960s.
He was also a musician and poet.
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September 17th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Jeremy Ripley a.k.a. Cheesecake says:
I haven’t read this one yet, but can it surpass Wolff’s “Big Game, Small World” and “Heaven is a Playground”?
September 17th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Bobbito Garcia a.k.a. Kool Bob Love says:
basketball diaries the book is definitely up in my all-time top ten, and basketball diaries the movie is down in my worst film adaptions ever, too!