It happened in the 1949–50 college basketball season. The unranked City College team ("five street kids from the City of New York—three Jews and two blacks") outstripped the competition from the Midwest to take the titles in both the NCAA championship and National Invitation Tournament. The feat was unprecedented, and never again duplicated. Sadly, the scandal that followed it—and ended with the indictment of twenty players (for shaving points) as well as fourteen fixers—left New York bereft of big-time college basketball. Cited by Sports Illustrated as one the twenty-five best literary sports books ever published and the basis for the award-winning HBO documentary City Dump, which has been optioned for a major film, The Game They Played comprises both a history of the fixed and dumped college basketball games from the late 1940s to the early 1960s and a morality tale that contemplates the nature of justice in America. It poignantly tells the story, too, of dreams that were lost, illusions broken, and kids betrayed by the sad truths of greed and corruption.
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They had played the game with a careless elegance, with the arrogant street smarts of the New York slick. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
been fixing games, schoolyard player, shaving points, fixed game, point shaving Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Madison Square Garden, Nat Holman, Ohio State, Bowling Green, Brooklyn College, North Carolina State, Floyd Layne, San Francisco, World War, Eddie Gard, Sherman White, Eastern League, Manhattan College, Norm Mager, Adolph Rupp, Jack Molinas, Ralph Beard, Clair Bee, Eighth Avenue, Frank Costello, New Jersey, Paul Unruh, Washington State, Bobby Sand New!
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They had played the game with a careless elegance, with the arrogant street smarts of the New York slick. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
been fixing games, schoolyard player, shaving points, fixed game, point shaving Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Madison Square Garden, Nat Holman, Ohio State, Bowling Green, Brooklyn College, North Carolina State, Floyd Layne, San Francisco, World War, Eddie Gard, Sherman White, Eastern League, Manhattan College, Norm Mager, Adolph Rupp, Jack Molinas, Ralph Beard, Clair Bee, Eighth Avenue, Frank Costello, New Jersey, Paul Unruh, Washington State, Bobby Sand New!
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- White Heat on page 162
- New York Giants by Julian May on page 61
- The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds by Pete Axthelm in Front Matter
- Rhode Island (Hello U.S.A.) by J. F. Warner on page 74
- We Came to Play: Writings on Basketball (IO Series) by Q.R. Hand in Front Matter, and page 71
- The Wrong Men: America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions by Stanley Cohen in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Jews, Sports, and the Rights of Citizenship by Jack Kugelmass on page 191, and page 192
- Cousy: His Life, Career, and the Birth of Big-Time Basketball by Bill Reynolds in Back Matter
- Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience by Peter Levine in Back Matter
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