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

by Scott Ellsworth

Book Overview

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"