“Mexicans Can’t Play Basketball”
“Mexicans Can’t Play Basketball”
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In 1939, a Mexican-American San Antonio high school basketball team shocked the nation. At the time, basketball was a white man’s game, and no one expected an all-Mexican-American team to not only play basketball—but play it well. Yet at the moment of their greatest triumph, things suddenly took a turn for the worst.