A BIBLE or A BALL?

I love books, all kind of books.  I like also to look at the pictures in books.

Sometimes the pictures are right at the beginning of the books.

I have here before me a book with the picture of a gentleman, who has an open BIBLE in his hand. I am used to pictures like that in  books.

But right now I am reading a book with very great interest where there is a big picture at the beginning of the book with a beautifully dressed elderly gentleman sitting on a chair – holding on to a BALL with both of his hands. It is a basketball. And I don’t think I am mistaken.