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Against the backdrop of one of the most tumultuous periods in recent American history, as riots and demonstrations spread across the nation, the Tigers of poor, segregated East High School in Columbus, Ohio did something no team from one school had ever done before: they won the state basketball and baseball championships in the same year. They defeated bigger, richer, whiter teams across the state and along the way brought blacks and whites together, eased a painful racial divide throughout the state, and overcame extraordinary obstacles on their road to success. In Tigerland, 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. At the same time, he places the Tigers' story in the context of the racially charged sixties, bringing in such national figures as Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Richard Nixon, all of whom had a connection to the teams and a direct effect on their mythical season.

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  • Title Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing
  • Author Wil Haygood
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group
  • ISBN 9781524731861 / 1524731862
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.3 in (23.88 x 16.26 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
  • Library of Congress subjects Columbus (Ohio), SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018002138
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.323

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2018, Page 16
  • Choice, 04/01/2019, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2018, Page 70
  • Library Journal, 10/01/2018, Page 64
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 05/15/2018, Page 42
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/30/2018, Page 0

About the author

Wil Haygood is currently visiting distinguished professor in the department of media, journalism, and film at Miami University, Ohio. For nearly three decades he was a journalist, serving as a national and foreign correspondent at The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and then at The Washington Post. He is the author of The Butler: A Witness to History; Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America; Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson; In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr.; Two on the River; King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; and The Haygoods of Columbus: A Family Memoir. The Butler was later adapted into the critically acclaimed film directed by Lee Daniels, starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. Haygood has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the 2017 Patrick Henry Fellowship Literary Award for his research for Tigerland. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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