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Barney Polan's Game : A Novel of the 1951 College Basketball Scandals
Barney Polan's Game A Novel of the 1951 College Basketball Scandals
Author: Charley 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: 9781888363562
ISBN-10: 1888363568
Publication Date: 12/1997
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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