HANDS DOWN THE FUNNIEST BOOK ABOUT PRO BASKETBALL EVER WRITTEN! It helps that it's about the brief, crazed history of the ABA, but the chapter about the St. Louis Spirits (with Marvin "Bad News" Barnes, Fly Williams of Austin Peay, and a first-year sportscaster named Bob Costas) is worth the price of the book alone. Pluto's book on the Cleveland Indians, The Curse of Rocky Colavito, is almost as funny, and ranks with Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and "The Worst Baseball Team in History"--The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers, by Mike Shropshire, and Jim Bouton's Ball Four, as the funniest book about major league baseball ever written.