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The secret game : a wartime story of courage, change, and basketball's lost triumph Cover Image Book Book

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

Ellsworth, Scott (Historian) (author.).

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

Item details

  • ISBN: 0316244619
  • ISBN: 9780316244619
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-375) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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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