Table of Contents
Foreword Bill Raftery ix
Introduction 1
1 3rd and Lindley 5
2 La Salle College High School 11
3 La Salle College: 1952 NIT Championship and 1953 Season 19
4 1954 NCAA Champions 27
5 1955: Gola versus K.C. Jones and Bill Russell 35
6 Love Letters and Wildwood 45
7 Gola to the NBA 47
8 Uncle Sam Called 53
9 San Francisco and a New York Knicks State of Mind 57
10 The "Behind the Iron Curtain" Tour 69
11 Gola Becomes Head Coach at La Salle 89
12 Gola's Political Career Begins 107
13 They're Younger, They're Tougher, and Nobody Owns Them 111
14 1973 City Controller Reelection 117
15 Tom Gola for Mayor 123
16 One Call to Superman 129
17 The Legacy of Number 15 139
18 A Call from the Hall 153
19 Gola at Work and at Home 157
Acknowledgments 163
Appendix 1 Correspondence 167
Appendix 2 Statistics 171
Sources 177
Index 183
Photographs follow page 72
