Pistol is a book about a father’s admiration and obsession with his son’s magical talent and a son’s desire to please his father in spite of the demons that haunted him until he finally found spiritual peace a few years before his death. Pistol is a book about the courage of pioneering something new and demonstrating how a driving passion can lead you to great accomplishments.
A great deal of the book is about Press Maravich, Pistol’s dad and his tough roots that trace back to Serbia. Press grew up in the steel mill town Aliquippa in Pennsylvania where he fought, struggled, but most of all fell in love with the game of basketball and became a solid player and earned a college scholarship to play at North Carolina State university.
The author Mark Kriegael does an excellent job of placing the reader in the middle of the action and allowing you to have a greater understanding and respect for Press Maravich and his ability as a coach.
There is not a dull moment in the book and it doesn’t matter if you saw Pistol play in his day or never saw him play. If you luvv basketball and the sociological pedagogy of fathers and sons you will fine yourself immersed in the story of Pistol