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

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Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing

The true story of the game that never will have to have happened–and of a nation getting ready to monumental change

In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon used to be on the verge of changing basketball without end. A protégé of James Naismith, the game’s inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch. His Eagles would turn out to be the highest-scoring college team in The us–a basketball juggernaut that shattered its opponents by as many as sixty points per game. Yet his players faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads.

Across town, at Duke University, the most efficient basketball squad on campus wasn’t the Blue Devils, but an all-white military team from the Duke medical school. Composed of former college stars from across the country, the team dismantled everyone they faced, including the Duke varsity. They were prepared to take on anyone–until an audacious invitation arrived, one that used to be years ahead of anything the South had ever seen before. What happened next wasn’t on anyone’s schedule.

Based on years of research, The Secret Game is a story of courage and determination, and of an unbelievable, long-buried moment in the nation’s sporting past. The riveting, true account of a remarkable season, it is the story of how a group of forgotten college basketball players, aided by a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany and a group of daring student activists, not only blazed a trail for a new more or less The us, but helped create one of the vital meaningful moments in basketball history.

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