Better Than the Best: Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007

In a collection of essays, each of more than a dozen black athletes explains what it was like to be a person of color in his or her particular sport, recalling the pain, loneliness and feelings of rejection, in a book that includes contributions by Arthur Ashe Jr., Alan Page, Lenny Wilkens, Mae Faggs Starr and many more. Original.