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That was one of the great things about being a regular at Buttonwood Park. You could get on a team, but then you had to keep winning to keep playing. It was a very democratic system, and race didn’t matter (there were white, Cape Verdean, African-American, and Latino kids): you had to win, and then play the next five guys. Keep winning, and keep playing. Lose, and sit down and wait for the next game–if you were good enough to get picked for it.
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Kavanaugh, G. (2017). The Summer, the Tensions, and the Park. In: Race, Politics, and Basketball. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-002-8_1
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