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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Korr, Charles P.     Subjects     Soccer -- South Africa.     Prisons -- South Africa.     Apartheid -- South Africa.     Prisoners -- South Africa -- Social conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Korr, Charles P.       by title:      More than just a gam...         MARC Display

More than just a game : soccer vs. apartheid : the most important soccer story ever told / Chuck Korr with Marvin Close. by Korr, Charles P. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2010. Subjects Soccer -- South Africa.   Prisons -- South Africa.   Apartheid -- South Africa.   Prisoners -- South Africa -- Social conditions. ISBN:  9780312596170 (alk. paper) 0312596170 (alk. paper) Description:  xiii, 317 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Contents:  The apartheid state -- The price of resistance -- The struggle for prisoners' rights -- The need to organize football -- Football establishes itself -- The Atlantic Raiders affair -- Growing older with football -- Two football codes on one island -- Something more than football -- Football struggles to survive -- The arrival of the Soweto generation -- Life after the island -- The story behind More than just a game / by Chuck Korr. Requests:  0 Summary:  In the hell that was Robben Island, inmates united courageously in an act of protest. Beginning in 1964, they requested the right to play soccer during their exercise periods. Denied repeatedly, they risked beatings and food deprivation by repeating their request for three years. Finally granted this right, the prisoners banded together to form a multi-tiered, pro-level league that ran for more than two decades and served as an impassioned symbol of resistance against apartheid--Publisher description   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 796.33409 Ko Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.33409 Korr Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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