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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Stealing lives Stealing lives Arturo J. Marcano Guevara "As a young boy growing up in Venezuela, Alexis Quiroz dreamed of playing in the Major Leagues. Alexis's dreams were like those of thousands of other boys in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, and… OL11606804W
Forty minutes of hell Forty minutes of hell Rus Bradburd An exploration of the racial politics of American sports, from the Jim Crow era to the present day, witnessed through the life of legendary African-American basketball coach and NCAA title winner Nol… OL13844399W
Globetrotting Globetrotting Damion L. Thomas x, 209 pages ; 23 cm OL16591941W
The secret game The secret game Scott Ellsworth Story of a 1944 illegal basketball game between the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham and the Duke University medical school team. OL19998683W
One nation under baseball One nation under baseball John Florio "One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport--fairness, competition, and mythology--came und… OL20059283W