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Lot # 40: CCNY Basketball Scandal Original File

Category: All Sports

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Item was in Auction "July 2005 - Fredo",
which ran from 7/27/2005 12:00 AM to
8/10/2005 9:00 PM



Newsroom file containing original newspaper/magazine clippings and "rip and run" ticker articles about the basketball point-shaving scandals of the early '50s involving CCNY, NYU and LIU. Clippings mainly from N.Y. papers. Ticker stuff especially interesting as an example of chaotic old-time newsroom life (some of the basketball topics are mixed in with political news). This was how info was stored and researched before google made it easy. Clippings are naturally yellowed with age, as they should be, but the scandal hysteria seems fresh all over again.

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