The City game : triumph, scandal, and a legendary basketball team
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The City game : triumph, scandal, and a legendary basketball team
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The work The City game : triumph, scandal, and a legendary basketball team represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- The City game : triumph, scandal, and a legendary basketball team
- Title remainder
- triumph, scandal, and a legendary basketball team
- Statement of responsibility
- Matthew Goodman
- Subject
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- Basketball -- Corrupt practices -- United States
- City College Beavers (Basketball team) -- History
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
- SPORTS & RECREATION / Basketball
- City University of New York, City College -- Basketball | History
- Basketball -- Betting -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- New York's City College was a tuition-free, merit-based college in Harlem known far more for its intellectual achievements and political radicalism than its athletic prowess. In 1949-1950 every single member of the City College Beavers was either Jewish or African American. Under the guidance of the legendary former player Nat Holman, this unheralded group of city kids would stun the basketball world by becoming the only team in history to win the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year. During the following season, all of the team's starting five were arrested by New York City detectives, charged with conspiring with gamblers to shave points. Goodman creates a portrait of an era when college basketball was far more popular than the professional game, gangsters controlled illegal sports betting, and everyone was getting rich-- except for the young men who actually played the games. -- adapted from jacket
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- Dewey number
- 796.323/63097471
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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