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Tells the story of how the best college basketball players of the early 1950s adjusted the outcome of the games they played in exchange for money from gamblers and, in doing so, became part of a nationwide scandal
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A New York Times Notable BookIn Barney Polan's Game, Charley Rosen takes on the legendary point-shaving scandals of 1950 and '51, when the best of the college basketball players took money from gamblers in return for affecting the outcomes of games, never knowing that in the process they were trading in their innocence and love of the game-until they were caught, and the scandal moved them from the sports pages to the news pages across the nation. No one will walk away from the scandals unscathed; many of the guilty will have their lives and careers ruined, others among the guilty will end up in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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