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Charlie Takes His Shot
Charlie Takes His Shot
Subtitle:
How Charlie Sifford Broke the Color Barrier in Golf
Book Category:
Juvenile Nonfiction > General
Author:
Nancy Churnin
Illustrator::
Joven, John
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 10:
0807511285
ISBN 13:
9780807511282
Price:
USD $16.99
Publication Year:
2018

Publisher Info

John Quattrocchi,

Albert Whitman & Company,
250 S. Northwest Highway,
Park Ridge ,
Illinois - 60068,
USA
Web: www.albertwhitman.com

Key Contact Information

Patrick McPartland
Vice President

John Quattrocchi
President

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Book Description

Charlie Sifford loved golf, but in the 1930?s only white people were allowed to play in the Professional Golf Association. Sifford had won plenty of black tournaments, but he was determined to break the color barrier in the PGA. In 1960 he did, only to face discrimination from hotels that wouldn?t rent him rooms and clubs that wouldn?t let him use the same locker as the white players. But Sifford kept playing, becoming the first black golfer to win a PGA tournament and eventually ranking among the greats in golf.

 
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