Bibliograph

The secret game, a wartime story of courage, change, and basketball's lost triumph, Scott Ellsworth

Type

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The secret game, a wartime story of courage, change, and basketball's lost triumph, Scott Ellsworth

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-375) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The secret game

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

883650119

Responsibility statement

Scott Ellsworth

Sub title

a wartime story of courage, change, and basketball's lost triumph

Summary

Story of a 1944 illegal basketball game between the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham and the Duke University medical school team

Table Of 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

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