The Secret Game
A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Story of a 1944 illegal basketball game between the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham and the Duke University medical school team.
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.
Subjects:
North Carolina College for Negroes -- Basketball.
Duke University -- Basketball.
Basketball -- North Carolina -- Durham.
Discrimination in sports -- North Carolina.
North Carolina College for Negroes -- Basketball.
Duke University -- Basketball.
Basketball -- North Carolina -- Durham.
Discrimination in sports -- North Carolina.
ISBN:
0316244619
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SPORTS Basketball Ell | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-375) and index.