Tigerland: The Miracle on East Broad Street

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From the creator of the most productive-selling The Butler–an emotional, inspiring story of two teams from a poor, black, segregated high school in Ohio, who, in the course of the racial turbulence of 1968/1969, win the Ohio state baseball and basketball championships in the similar year.

1968 and 1969: Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy are assassinated. Race relations are frayed like never before. Cities are aflame as demonstrations and riots proliferate. But in Columbus, Ohio, the Tigers of segregated East High School win the baseball and basketball championships, defeating bigger, richer, whiter teams around the state. Now, Wil Haygood gives us a spirited and stirring account of this incredible triumph and takes us deep into the personal lives of these local heroes: Robert Wright, power forward, whose father used to be a murderer; Kenny Mizelle, the Tigers’ second baseman, who grew up under the false impression that his father had died; Eddie “Rat” Ratleff, the star of both teams, who would play for the 1972 U.S. Olympic basketball team. We meet Jack Gibbs, the first black principal at East High; Bob Hart, the white basketball coach, decided to fight against the injustices he saw inflicting his team; the homeland fans who followed the Tigers to stadiums around the state. And, just as essential, Haygood puts the Tigers’ story in the context of the racially charged late 1960s. The result is both an inspiring sports story and a singularly illuminating social history.

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