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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Haygood, Wil, author.     Subjects     East High School (Columbus, Ohio) -- History.     Basketball -- Ohio -- Columbus -- History.     Baseball -- Ohio -- Columbus -- History.     Columbus (Ohio) -- Race relations -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Haygood, Wil, author.       by title:      Tigerland : 1968-196...         MARC Display

Tigerland : 1968-1969, a city divided, a nation torn apart, and a magical season of healing / Wil Haygood. by Haygood, Wil, author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018] Subjects East High School (Columbus, Ohio) -- History.   Basketball -- Ohio -- Columbus -- History.   Baseball -- Ohio -- Columbus -- History.   Columbus (Ohio) -- Race relations -- History. ISBN:  9781524731861 (hardback) 1524731862 (hardback) Description:  viii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Prologue: 1968, Reverend King passed this way -- Down to the river -- Eddie Rat meets the Afro-wearing Bo-Pete -- The house that Jack built -- Momentum -- Keeping food in the pantry -- So many dreams in the segregated city -- Panthers and Tigers, oh my -- The church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached -- St. John Arena -- The ballad of Jackie Robinson -- Twilight at Harley Field -- Robert Duncan and Richard Nixon's America -- The catcher in the storm -- Ghosts of the blue birds -- Off into the world -- Blood in Ohio -- Sins laid bare -- Epilogue: Still standing. Requests:  0 Summary:  "From the author of the best-selling The Butler--an emotional, inspiring story of two teams from a poor, black, segregated high school in Ohio, who, in the midst of the racial turbulence of 1968/1969, win the Ohio state baseball and basketball championships in the same year. 1968 and 1969: Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy are assassinated. Race relations are frayed like never before. Cities are aflame as demonstrations and riots proliferate. But in Columbus, Ohio, the Tigers of segregated East High School win the baseball and basketball championships, defeating bigger, richer, whiter teams across the state. Now, Wil Haygood gives us a spirited and stirring account of this improbable triumph and takes us deep into the personal lives of these local heroes: Robert Wright, power forward, whose father was a murderer; Kenny Mizelle, the Tigers' second baseman, who grew up under the false impression that his father had died; Eddie 'Rat' Ratleff, the star of both teams, who would play for the 1972 U.S. Olympic basketball team. We meet Jack Gibbs, the first black principal at East High; Bob Hart, the white basketball coach, determined to fight against the injustices he saw inflicting his team; the hometown fans who followed the Tigers to stadiums across the state. And, just as important, Haygood puts the Tigers' story in the context of the racially charged late 1960s. The result is both an inspiring sports story and a singularly illuminating social history"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 796.32309 Haygood Ha Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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