Hot Potato
Subtitle: How Washington and New York Gave Birth to Black Basketball and Changed America's Game Forever
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780813922638
Subjects: Basketball; Black studies; New York (State); Basketball - General; Sports & Recreation; Washington (D.C.); Sports; USA; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; African American basketball pl; African American basketball players; New York
First sentence: History is silent on the exact date.
Description: "The book details for the first time the rise of black professional basketball in America, with a particular emphasis on the New York Renaisance, a team considered by experts to be as important in the development of black basketball as the Harlem Globetrotters. Bob Kuska recounts the Renaissance's first victory over the white world-champion Original Celtics in 1925, and he evaluates the significance of this win in advancing equality in American sports. By the late 1920s, the Renaissance became one of the sport's top draws in white and black America alike, setting the stage for the team's undisputed world championship in 1939"--Jacket.