The Game Would Not End: A Cultural Clash, A Magic Shot, Two Crime-Burdened Cities - Couverture souple

Newhouse, Dave

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1081367334 ISBN 13 : 9781081367336

Editeur : Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Nate Branch possibly made the most incredible shot in basketball history -- a jumper from the corner at the end of the fifth overtime of a tournament championship game. Although it happened at the high school level, on the Stanford University campus in 1962, Branch's perfect swish had a historical imprint in other ways. The game was between an all-black team and an all-white team located in California cities that were designated as murder capitals in America. The Seismic Sixties, the most transformative decade of the century, was just underway as Branch gave Ravenswood High of East Palo Alto, the black public school team with a White Shadow coach, a hard-fought, exhausting victory over St. Elizabeth High, a parochial school from Oakland. In 2018, author Dave Newhouse met with players and coaches from both teams to relive that game -- the longest high school tournament championship basketball game up to that point -- and the ramifications that followed. Both schools would shut down in name, the tournament would be discontinued, the gymnasium no longer is used for basketball, and the three newspapers that covered the tournament are no longer in operation. Thus players and coaches from that game, plus additional alumni who were interviewed, view that memorable evening from a lifetime's perspective. East Palo Alto, in 1992, led the country in murders per capital. Oakland continually ranked in the top ten until both cities underwent gentrifications that reduced crime immeasurably. Both current mayors of the two municipalities were interviewed about the cultural change. Though a number of combined players have passed on, a long-overdue reunion of the players from that classic game took place fifty-five years afterward in 2017 at a church where Branch, the game's hero, plays the organ and sings on Sunday mornings inside the East Palo Alto church where his father was the pastor. The Seismic Sixties are relived as well as the five-overtime game has moved on from a fierce rivalry to a friendly relationship.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1081367334
• ISBN 13: 9781081367336
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 202
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