Game Changer
Author: Coy, John
ISBN: 9781467726047
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 32
Dimensions: 235mm x 280mm x
Format: Hardback
Description:
The exciting true story of the Civil Rights era and of the dawn of modern basketball, the world's second most popular sport.
In 1944, the Duke University basketball team played a game with the North Carolina College of Negroes. The game had to be played in secret, but it was a glimpse of the future of basketball and America. Years before Jackie Robinson integrated baseball, visionary basketball coach and future hall-of-tamer John Mclendon orchestrated a game that proved the sport could bring people of all races together.
ISBN: 9781467726047
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 32
Dimensions: 235mm x 280mm x
Format: Hardback
Description:
The exciting true story of the Civil Rights era and of the dawn of modern basketball, the world's second most popular sport.
In 1944, the Duke University basketball team played a game with the North Carolina College of Negroes. The game had to be played in secret, but it was a glimpse of the future of basketball and America. Years before Jackie Robinson integrated baseball, visionary basketball coach and future hall-of-tamer John Mclendon orchestrated a game that proved the sport could bring people of all races together.
