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Getting Open: The Unknown Story of Bill Garrett and the Integration of College Basketball
Getting Open The Unknown Story of Bill Garrett and the Integration of College Basketball
Author: Tom Graham, Rachel Graham Cody
Bill Garrett was the Jackie Robinson of college basketball. In 1947, the same year Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball, Garrett integrated big-time college basketball. By joining the basketball program at Indiana University, he broke the gentleman's agreement that had barred black players from the Big Ten, college basketball's...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780743479035
ISBN-10: 0743479033
Publication Date: 3/28/2006
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Atria
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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