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Barney Polan's Game: A Novel of the 1951 College Basketball Scandals (Harvest Book)
Barney Polan's Game A Novel of the 1951 College Basketball Scandals - Harvest Book
Author: Charles Rosen
Like the 1919 Black Sox scandal in baseball, the college basketball point-shaving scandal of 1951 represented a fall from grace. Players, coaches, bookies, and gangsters conspired to fix the outcomes of games, and their exposure showed that basketball was irrevocably corrupted by power and big money. Charley Rosen, whose acclaimed previous novel...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780156006880
ISBN-10: 015600688X
Publication Date: 3/18/1999
Pages: 251
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Publisher: Harvest/HBJ Book
Book Type: Paperback
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