The Secret Game A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
Age band: 13+
Looky Rating System: Violence 2/5, Love & Romance 0/5, Mental Health 0/5, Language 1/5, Substance Use 0/5, Fear / Horror 2/5, Fantasy / Supernatural 0/5, LGBTQ+ Representation 0/5, Sci-Fi / Futuristic 0/5, Disability & Neurodiversity 0/5.
Description
Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports WritingThe true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental changeIn the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch.