Playing the White Man's Games by Don Marks

Playing the White Man's Games by Don Marks

Playing the White Man's Games tells the extraordinary tales of Native American athletes who overcame tremendous obstacles to dominate the NFL, CFL, PGA, Olympic Games, NHL and professional wrestling. From ABC's Athlete of the Century Jim Thorpe, whose track and field career began when he surpassed his college varsity high jump team in street shoes and climaxed with gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games, before moving on to dominate NCA and NFL football, major league baseball and 22 sports in all, including a national championship in ballroom dancing. To Billy Mills, who improved his best time by an unheard of 50 seconds to win the 10,000-metre Olympic race in the greatest upset in Olympic history. And Notah Begay I, a product of public courses and Navajo code talkers who won four PGA tournaments in his first two years on the pro golf tour. Sometimes referred to as the forgotten American, the fascinating stories of these colourful characters will make you recall Native American heroes with wonder and awe, not only for their exploits on the field of play, but for their efforts to preserve and enhance native history, culture and lifestyle with pride and dignity away from the competition.

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ISBN 13	9781927922019
ISBN 10	1927922011
Title	Playing the White Man's Games
Author	Don Marks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Year published	2014-09-20
Number of pages	272
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