Joshua Casper

I consider Claude a friend but I say this with absolute objectivity as a fellow researcher and writer I am impressed with his ability to take factual research from a number of different areas and bring it to life while adding cultural context. It’s factually dense, but an easy read. You will appreciate the attention to detail and comprehensive history of black basketball and its principal architects in America’s important urban centers where black basketball clubs like the Harlem Renaissance were bastions of entertainment, commerce and sport, for black patrons and entrepreneurs before the integration of professional sports and society. I can promise you will learn something new. If you want to know basketball history, this is a must read. Claude Johnson has done for basketball what Phil Dixon and Bob Kendrick have done for black baseball history.