The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph

by Scott Ellsworth

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Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: The true story of the game that never should have happened -- and of a nation on the brink of monumental change.

In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A prot?g? of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0316244627

ISBN13:9780316244626

Release Date:March 2016

Publisher:Back Bay Books

Length:400 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"

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Courage Segregation Sportsmanship Teamwork The Civil Rights Movement History Sports & Outdoors Sports & Recreation

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