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September 18, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events

Display highlights basketball photos in "Basketball: Power in Play"

Obstacle Course (Shimer College basketball team practice). Unidentified photographer, "New York Journal-American," January 26, 1964.

Basketball, which began as a game invented to occupy young, energetic boys within the confines of a gymnasium on rainy days, has come to be one of the most popular sports in American culture. Basketball: Power in Play, a display of sports photographs from the Harry Ransom Center’s New York… read more 

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