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The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
Scott Ellsworth
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Description for The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 26 b/w photos run w/ text. BIC Classification: WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
In 1943, at the North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. His team was the highest-scoring team in America, and yet they faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads.
Across town, the best squad on Duke University's campus wasn't the Blue Devils, but an all-white team from the medical school. They were prepared to take on anyone -- until an audacious invitation arrived.
THE SECRET GAME is the story of a long-buried moment in the nation's sporting past. A riveting account of a barrier-shattering game, the evolution of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316244626
SKU
V9780316244626
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Scott Ellsworth
Scott Ellsworth has written about American history for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he is the author of Death in a Promised Land, a groundbreaking account of the 1921 Tulsa race riot. He lives with his wife and twin sons in Ann Arbor, where he teaches ... Read more
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