Basketball book
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FROM: "Michalik" <[removed]@lynchburg.net>
DATE: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:45:30 -0500
Please forgive if this has already been posted. I think I sent it to the
wrong address before.
Patron is looking for a non-fiction book about the basketball scandal of the
1950 NCAA tournament where some players from CCNY were accused of shaving
points. He has already seen "Basketball Scandal" which is fiction, and it
not what he wants. Any help you can give would be appreciated.
By the way, one of our reference librarians is a former sports writer. I'll
bet he knows - but he's on vacation this week! Murphy's Law of Libraries?
Candice Michalik
Reference Librarian
Lynchburg Public Library
Lynchburg, VA
[removed]@lynchburg.net
FROM: "Tom Dillie" <[removed]@wadsworth.lib.oh.us>
DATE: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:42:09 -0500
Tom Dillie, Adult Services Librarian
Wadsworth Public Library
132 Broad St.
Wadsworth OH 44281
www.wadsworth.lib.oh.us
Michalik wrote:
> Hello
>
> Please forgive if this has already been posted. I think I sent it to the
> wrong address before.
>
> Patron is looking for a non-fiction book about the basketball scandal of the
> 1950 NCAA tournament where some players from CCNY were accused of shaving
> points. He has already seen "Basketball Scandal" which is fiction, and it
> not what he wants. Any help you can give would be appreciated.
>
> By the way, one of our reference librarians is a former sports writer. I'll
> bet he knows - but he's on vacation this week! Murphy's Law of Libraries?
>
> Candice Michalik
> Reference Librarian
> Lynchburg Public Library
> Lynchburg, VA
> [removed]@lynchburg.net
FROM: aaron smith <[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us>
DATE: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:00:55 -0500 (EST)
I like Tom Dillie's answer better than mine, but I have run across an
older title that might be what you seek:
Manus, Willard, 1930- . The fixers. New York : Ace Books, 1957.
Good luck with your search!
Aaron
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Michalik wrote:
>
> Patron is looking for a non-fiction book about the basketball scandal of the
> 1950 NCAA tournament where some players from CCNY were accused of shaving
> points. He has already seen "Basketball Scandal" which is fiction, and it
> not what he wants. Any help you can give would be appreciated.
>
> Candice Michalik
> Reference Librarian
> Lynchburg Public Library
> Lynchburg, VA
> [removed]@lynchburg.net
FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
DATE: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 10:57:55 -0500
Charles Rosen's novel on this subject has already been noted, but Rosen had
earlier done a nonfiction study which may be the one that's wanted:
AUTHOR: Rosen, Charles.
TITLE: Scandals of '51 :
how the gamblers almost killed college basketball /
EDITION: 1st ed.
PLACE: New York :
PUBLISHER: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
YEAR: 1978
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: 262 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
SUBJECT: Basketball -- United States -- History.
Bribery -- United States.
Basketball players -- United States -- Biography.
College sports.
(There's a recent trade pb reprint of the above from Seven Stories Press.)
I also find the following in WorldCat; don't know if it's fiction or non--
AUTHOR: Waldman, Frank, 1919-
TITLE: Basketball scandal;
EDITION: 1st ed.â
PLACE: New York,
PUBLISHER: Ariel Books
YEAR: 1953
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: 152 p. illus. 22 cm.
And this, which may or may not be about that specific scandal:
AUTHOR: Cohen, Stanley, 1934-
TITLE: The game they played /
EDITION: 1st ed.
PLACE: New York :
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
YEAR: 1977
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: 245 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0374212937 :
SUBJECT: Basketball -- United States.
Sports betting -- United States.
Bribery -- United States.
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
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