Peter May has spent the last four decades covering sports for the Boston Globe, the New York Times, ESPN, the Hartford Courant and United Press International. He continues to freelance for the Boston Globe and the New York Times. He is the author of five books, most recently The Open Question: Ben Hogan and Golfs Most Enduring Controversy, which was nominated for the Herbert Warren Wind Award. He lives in New Hampshire.
Description
Acknowledgments A Note on Sources Foreword Prologue Chapter 1 BEGINNINGS Chapter 2 STANLEY Chapter 3 THE BENEFACTORS Chapter 4 STANLEY, THE DEATH PENALTY AND THE DEMOCRATIC REVIVAL IN CALIFORNIA Chapter 5 THE FIGHT CONTINUES Chapter 6 THE OBNOXIOUS RESTRICTION ARONIMINK - JULY 1962 Chapter 7 CHARLIE IN THE 60S Chapter 8 STANLEY IN THE 60S Chapter 9 THE MASTERS Chapter 10 BAKKE, BIRD, A SENIOR MOMENT AND AN ELUSIVE BUICK Epilogue Bibliography
Reviews
Peter Mays storytelling here qualifies as marvelous but also as crucial: It’s crucial that we learn the details and the human cost of the vile realities of our history.
— Chuck Culpepper, Washington Post sportswriter and author of William Hill award finalist Bloody Confused: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer
Stanley Mosk did as much for us as Charlie Sifford did. We couldn’t play. Even though Charlie laid the groundwork, it was Mosk who opened the door. This book finally tells that story.
— Walter Morgan, three-time winner on the PGA Senior Tour
With cogent reporting and new insights, Peter May resurrects the pivotal story of how Charlie Sifford and Stanley Mosk, improbable allies, valiantly worked together to end codified racial discrimination in golf. It is a 1960s tale thats more relevant than ever today.
— Bill Pennington, the New York Times
In these pages, Peter May lays out with intricate detail the story of the unlikely partnership of the Black North Carolina golfer and the fearless California attorney general with all the highs and lows inherent to such an undertaking.
— Ed Eckstine, son of Charlie’s pal Billy and longtime entertainment executive
Not only is Peter May’s tracking of the chance intersection of Black golf great Charlie Sifford and the first Jew elected statewide in California, attorney general Stanley Mosk, to end golf’s infamous Caucasians-only rule in 1961 revelatory, but it also reminds with interesting recounting from news reports of the day just how ingrained racism was in golf and, disturbingly, how the most celebrated names in the game had refused to engage it.
— Kevin Blackistone, ESPN panelist, University of Maryland journalism professor, and Washington Post sports columnist