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1964 was a pivotal year in the Civil Rights movement, and in Birmingham, Alabama — perhaps the epicenter of American racial conflict — a remarkable grand experiment was about to take place: Alabama's first-ever integrated team, the Barons of baseball's Southern League.

On April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save their submarine and themselves after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor.

In Native American tradition, a warrior gained honor and glory by 'counting coup' — touching his enemy in battle and living to tell the tale. This is a modern story of basketball, identity, and redemption on a Montana reservation.

They were the golden boys at PiKA, the jock frat house at Berkeley. They spent their days on the playing fields, their nights with icy kegs and willing women.