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the ballhawks
Though the contests are real and the scoring earnest, sometimes basketball is not what it seems. At Riverside High, Mike Lodge finds it the foil for another kind of game, one coached from the underside of human consciousness and played via a series of fouls that only blind prejudice would fail to recognize.
Fresh from Philadelphia and formerly of New York, he smells the change in rules the moment the three of them himself, his wife, and the respected MG-enter the quiet Oregon town. It's a change that makes the new head coach regret he ever left the East.
Great, big, fat Rule Number One says that anyone who doesn't look, act, think, and speak like everyone else born and bred in the right part of this particular Willamette Valley town should be treated with all the suspicion the intrusion demands. At the moment the persona non grata club also includes Sammy Choy, Chinese-American son of a restaurateur re- cently arrived from San Francisco, and Bud Grubb, skinny scion of the hapless house of Grubb marked by a shiftless father and a pair of smelly goats.
Bud and Sammy are on the basketball team. Mike's effort to keep them there, plus his alibi for them in an unhappy matter of theft, gives no help to his own status outside the pale- which grows paler as Ben Gleason's enmity turns blacker.
Fresh from Philadelphia and formerly of New York, he smells the change in rules the moment the three of them himself, his wife, and the respected MG-enter the quiet Oregon town. It's a change that makes the new head coach regret he ever left the East.
Great, big, fat Rule Number One says that anyone who doesn't look, act, think, and speak like everyone else born and bred in the right part of this particular Willamette Valley town should be treated with all the suspicion the intrusion demands. At the moment the persona non grata club also includes Sammy Choy, Chinese-American son of a restaurateur re- cently arrived from San Francisco, and Bud Grubb, skinny scion of the hapless house of Grubb marked by a shiftless father and a pair of smelly goats.
Bud and Sammy are on the basketball team. Mike's effort to keep them there, plus his alibi for them in an unhappy matter of theft, gives no help to his own status outside the pale- which grows paler as Ben Gleason's enmity turns blacker.
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Published January 1, 1960
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