Magic's Touch: From Fast Break to Fundamentals with Basketball's Most Exciting Player

Earvin Magic Johnson. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, $5.9 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-201-55092-4

This is less an autobiography of the NBA's living legend than a guide to playing basketball. ``Aspiring players will find the book a trove of practical information, and those who are merely spectators will also be the wiser for it,'' wrote PW. Photos. 250,000 first printing. (Oct.)

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