Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame

Books

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New Book Release: Dan McLaurin’s Memoir, “32 Minutes of Greatness:Special Edition”

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Dan McLaurin’s “32 Minutes of Greatness” is true North Carolina basketball history revealed.

If you are a basketball-history buff, or think you are, you surely know everything about recent basketball wizards of our time: Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and many others. All these iconic figures, and others, enjoyed illustrious secondary school, and even college careers. However, you likely are not familiar with those who were burning up hallowed high-school hoop-haven hardwood long before these ‘hoopsters’ were in Nikes.

At  Durham, North Carolina’s all-black, Hillside High School, the late, great Coach Carl L. Easterling, instituted a methodolgy and approach to the game of basketball that laid the groundwork for an offense never before seen. His teams employed blinding speed and stamina, coupled with fierce defense that teams dreaded confronting. This all took place in the era of “Jim Crow,” and segregation. Credit for such success was not freely given but truth, like the mythical ‘Phoenix,’ always rises.

During his coaching career, Easterling-coached teams won 80% of their basketball games. In 1965, he coached Hillside’s boy’s 1965 4-A State Basketball championship team. Coach Easterling’s innovative style of play changed the game; he was the architect of the famed, “Pony Express” team. His team owns several scoring records including the highest scoring average in North Carolina’s basketball history.

McLaurin’s “32 Minutes of Greatness” tells the story in candid, first-hand language only possible because he was there. In 1966, the last year of segregated Hillside, McLaurin’s team set records that survive to this day.

In this inspiring, 148 page, Falcon Creek Publishing Company, softcover followup to his first book: “32 Minutes of Greatness: The Untold Story,” McLaurin scores a full-court , ‘nothing but net’ shot. The words and pictures tell you as much as can be told. However, only those who were there, can know what it was like: the deafening cheers; the non-stop assault; the fierce gaze of a team in full stride; the looks of despair etched on the faces of opponents, and the final buzzer that glowed with a final score that was seldom in doubt.

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New Book Release: He Came from Gouldtown, by Harold Gould with Bob Allen

Pitcher with the Philadelphia Stars of the Negro Leagues, Harold Gould has just published an autobiography of his life, with special emphasis on his years as a pitcher during the Jim Crow years of America’s pastime.

Born and raised in his native Gouldtown, New Jersey, Harold Gould had been scouted by and became an ace pitcher for the Philadelphia Stars in the latter part of the 1940’s. He travelled the baseball routes of his day around the country and into Canada as well, pitching against Satchel Paige and playing with and against a host of other famous and less known baseball greats of his era.

His book, titled HE CAME FROM GOULDTOWN, released mid-December 2009 by Catawba Publishing, is an oral history of his life, conversations on his various careers, including baseball, with Dr Bob Allen, formerly of Penn State and now teaching at Cumberland County College of NJ.

Harold Gould’s book can be ordered directly by contacting Harold and Gwen Gould: gweneg@comcast.net

For further press information contact Dr Allen: lhadd@aol.com

Please view general project prospectus and sample clips at:

dreamsdeferred.org

and interviews with author at:

http://streams.wpsx.psu.edu/Negro_League02112.html
http://streams.wpsx.psu.edu/Negro_League02082.html

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