Anyone who knows anything about this.. please
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"Leopard Ed" Warner was a couple of years ahead of me at DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx,NY,
The game against the University of Kentucky's Wildcats was --- I think --- for the NIT championship --- at that time more important than the NCAA.
UKy was the overwhelming favortite.
CCNY --- all Jews and blacks --- all freshmen I believe --- won by 90-45.
It changed the Mid-South's view of minorities. Joy in rapture in NYNY.
Then a number of Coach Nat Holman's players were indicted in a point-shaving scandal.
Gloom.
I love the theme of sports & society.
Think: Jackie Robinson, soccer wars. ping-pong diplomacy, drug scandals, Roberto Clemente who called himself a Double-N , as recounted in WashPostie's David Marannis wonderful new book.
Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) gave up writing about politics at an advanced age to write a book about the Lost Tribes of Israel in the real Caucases (not in Iowa.) (sp?)
The need to re-invent oneself is a powerful human emotion.
So I am am planning a Next Book on all aspects of the great game and the great season --- triuph and tragedy..
Anyone with any information is invited to inform me.
I would be most grateful.
Ben
"Leopard Ed" Warner was a couple of years ahead of me at DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx,NY,
The game against the University of Kentucky's Wildcats was --- I think --- for the NIT championship --- at that time more important than the NCAA.
UKy was the overwhelming favortite.
CCNY --- all Jews and blacks --- all freshmen I believe --- won by 90-45.
It changed the Mid-South's view of minorities. Joy in rapture in NYNY.
Then a number of Coach Nat Holman's players were indicted in a point-shaving scandal.
Gloom.
I love the theme of sports & society.
Think: Jackie Robinson, soccer wars. ping-pong diplomacy, drug scandals, Roberto Clemente who called himself a Double-N , as recounted in WashPostie's David Marannis wonderful new book.
Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) gave up writing about politics at an advanced age to write a book about the Lost Tribes of Israel in the real Caucases (not in Iowa.) (sp?)
The need to re-invent oneself is a powerful human emotion.
So I am am planning a Next Book on all aspects of the great game and the great season --- triuph and tragedy..
Anyone with any information is invited to inform me.
I would be most grateful.
Ben
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