The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team By Matthew Goodman

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The powerful story of a college basketball team who carried an era’s brightest hopes—racial harmony, social mobility, and the triumph of the underdog—but whose success was soon followed by a shocking downfall “A masterpiece of American storytelling.”—Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Devil in the GroveNAMED ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWThe unlikeliest of champions, the 1949–50 City College Beavers were extraordinary by every measure. New York’s City College was a tuition-free, merit-based college in Harlem known far more for its intellectual achievements and political radicalism than its athletic prowess. Only two years after Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier—and at a time when the National Basketball Association was still segregated—every single member of the Beavers was either Jewish or African American. But during that remarkable season, under the guidance of the legendary former player Nat Holman, this unheralded group of city kids would stun the basketball world by becoming the only team in history to win the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year. This team, though, proved to be extraordinary in another way: During the following season, all of the team’s starting five were arrested by New York City detectives, charged with conspiring with gamblers to shave points. Almost overnight these beloved heroes turned into fallen idols. The story centers on two teammates and close friends, Eddie Roman and Floyd Layne, one white, one black, each caught up in the scandal, each searching for a path to personal redemption. Though banned from the NBA, Layne continued to devote himself to basketball, teaching the game to young people in his Bronx neighborhood and, ultimately, with Roman’s help, finding another kind of triumph—one that no one could have anticipated. Drawing on interviews with the surviving members of that championship team, Matthew Goodman has created an indelible portrait of an era of smoke-filled arenas and Borscht Belt hotels, when college basketball was far more popular than the professional game. It was a time when gangsters controlled illegal sports betting, the police were on their payroll, and everyone, it seemed, was getting rich—except for the young men who actually played the games. Tautly paced and rich with period detail, The City Game tells a story both dramatic and poignant: of political corruption, duplicity in big-time college sports, and the deeper meaning of athletic success.

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The City Game is a beautifully written, non-stop adventure chronicling the American college basketball point-shaving scandal from 1949-52. But the book is so much more. This historical non-fiction account is so well crafted that it reads like a great novel. The character development of the players, the coaches, the New York City mobsters and corrupt police and politicians, makes this book one of the best of 2019 in any genre. In short, you do not need to be a basketball fan to love this book. Mr. Goodman's insight into the melting-pot that was City College of New York, a top-notch and free educational mecca for immigrants, African-Americans and Jews who were denied admission to the nation's elite universities, is compelling and fascinating. Mr. Goodman writes so well that I was excited by his re-telling of college basketball games, even when I already knew the outcome. The City Game presents a vivid picture of post-WWII New York, where abundance and greed and the pursuit of the mighty dollar chewed up and spit out innocence and youth, most often with extreme personal consequences. There is so much of this book that still resonates today, in sports and in life. If you liked The Boys in the Boat, you'll love The City Game.

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