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

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

Main Author: Ellsworth, Scott (Historian) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Edition: First edition.
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Summary: Story of a 1944 illegal basketball game between the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham and the Duke University medical school team.
Physical Description: viii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-375) and index.
ISBN: 0316244619
9780316244619
Author Notes: Scott Ellsworth is the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Game , which was the winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He has written about American history for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he is the author of Death in a Promised Land , his groundbreaking account of the 1921 Tulsa race riot. He lives with his wife and twin sons in Ann Arbor, where he teaches at the University of Michigan.