Hot Potato
Author | : Bob Kuska |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004-03-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 0813924251 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780813924250 |
Rating | : 4/5 (250 Downloads) |
Download or read book Hot Potato written by Bob Kuska and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2004-03-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Edwin Henderson introduced the game to Washington, D.C., in 1907, he envisioned basketball as a way for more outstanding black student athletes to excel at northern white colleges and debunk negative stereotypes of the race. Almost simultaneously, black basketball was catching on quickly in New York. Kuska establishes that these two cities served as the birthplace of the black game.