Basketball in Mali--"Red" Verderame
The U S. Information Agency sent a cable in 1968 to Bamako that offered the teaching services of Salvatore "Red" Verderame, an outstanding basketball coach, to improve basketball teams in Africa. Way upcountry, Red made a big hit at a crowded local market which sold everything from baskets...
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Veröffentlicht in: | American diplomacy 2015-02, p.1 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The U S. Information Agency sent a cable in 1968 to Bamako that offered the teaching services of Salvatore "Red" Verderame, an outstanding basketball coach, to improve basketball teams in Africa. Way upcountry, Red made a big hit at a crowded local market which sold everything from baskets and gourds to fine gold work and old coins (spread out on a scrap of cloth on the ground were Austrian thalers, English guineas, Spanish doubloons, coins no longer used in Europe). |
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ISSN: | 1094-8120 1094-8120 |