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| Title |
The secret game : a wartime story of courage, change, and basketball's lost triumph / Scott Ellsworth |
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| Edition |
First edition |
| Phys Descr |
viii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
BPL: Richard Withee Fund. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-375) and index |
| Contents |
Spring 1944 -- Aubrey -- Negroes with LaSalles -- Big dog -- "Nobody wanted to mess with him" -- Fathers and sons -- Lawrence -- "That's how you do it!" -- Berlin, 1936 -- Racehorse basketball -- Hoosiers -- City of stone -- Blue devil -- Medicine ball -- "He can't sit there" -- Burgess -- A knock at the door -- "You could see it in their eyes" -- New York -- The secret game -- "Did you hear about ..." -- Look away -- The ghosts of Jim Crow |
| Summary |
Story of a 1944 illegal basketball game between the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham and the Duke University medical school team |
| Subject |
North Carolina College for Negroes -- Basketball
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Duke University -- Basketball
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Basketball -- North Carolina -- Durham
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Discrimination in sports -- North Carolina
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| OCLC # |
883650119 |
| ISBN # |
0316244619 |
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9780316244619 |
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