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Tigerland : 1968-1969, a city divided, a nation torn apart, and a magical season of healing

Tigerland : 1968-1969, a city divided, a nation torn apart, and a magical season of healing

Book 2018

"From the author of the best-selling The Butler--an emotional, inspiring story of two teams from a poor, black, segregated high school in Ohio, who, in the midst of the racial turbulence of 1968/1969, win the Ohio state baseball and basketball championships in the same year. 1968 and 1969: Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy are assassinated. Race relations are frayed like never before. Cities are aflame as demonstrations and riots proliferate....