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Easton Press leather edition of Bill Bradley 's "Life on the Run," a COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the SIGNED FIRST EDITION series, PERSONALLY SIGNED by Bill Bradley, published in 1998. Bound in brown leather, the book has camel tan French moire silk end leaves, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---very minor imperfection to top gilt---mentioned for accuracy. William Warren Bradley, who was born in 1943, is an American politician and former professional basketball player who served three terms as a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey and ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2000 election. Bradley was born and raised in Crystal City, MISSOURI, a small town 45 miles south of St. Louis. He excelled at basketball from an early age. He did well academically and was an all-county and all-state basketball player in high school. He was offered 75 college scholarships, but declined them all to attend Princeton University. He earned a gold medal as a member of the 1963 Olympic basketball team and was the NCAA Player of the Year in 1965 when Princeton finished third in the NCAA Tournament. After graduating in 1965, he attended Oxford on a RHODES Scholarship, delaying a decision for two years on whether or not to play in the National Basketball Association. While at Oxford, Bradley played one season of professional basketball in Europe, and eventually joined the NEW YORK KNICKS in the 1967–68 season. He spent his entire ten-year professional basketball career playing for the Knicks, winning two championship titles. Retiring in 1977, he ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate the following year, from his adopted home state of New Jersey. He was re-elected in 1984 and 1990, left the Senate in 1997. "So tell me, Senator," a huge number of people have asked me over the past sixteen years, "which is the greater thrill, being a Senator or being a member of a championship team?" In a brief comment, Bradley replied that "when I came to the Senate, I put basketball behind me." "What I have tried to do in "Life on the Run" was to allow people to hear, feel, see what is was like to be a professional basketball player crisscrossing American for eight months a years, playing sometimes as many as a hundred twenty games in a single season. Bradley writes of such sports legends as OSCAR ROBERTSON, Celtic DAVE COWENS, PHIL JACKSON, WILLIS REED, WALT FRAZIER, JERRY LUCAS, WILT CHAMBERLAIN, EARL MONROE, JERRY WEST, and DAVE DEBUSSCHERE, and others. 229 Pages. I offer Combined shipping.