The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
Author: Feinstein, John
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.7
Points
20.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
117662
Points per Word
0.00017
Page Count
366
Points per Page
0.054645
Description
This book recounts the events surrounding a fistfight between two basketball teams in 1977, in which Rudy Tomjanovich was nearly killed by a blow from Kermit Washington, and discusses how both men's lives and basketball were affected.