1950's Sports | "Two Ex-Stars Held in Basketball 'Fix' at $2,000 a Game"

Newspaper article

By: Meyer Berger

Date: January 18, 1951

Source: Berger, Meyer. "Two Ex-Stars Held in Basketball 'Fix' at $2,000 a Game." The New York Times, January 18, 1951, 1.

About the Author: Meyer Berger (1898–1959) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. Berger was the author of the "About New York" column in the 1950s, one of the earliest examples of the human interest reporting about the lives of ordinary people and their activities. He was also the author of the book, The Story of the New York Times, 1851–1951 (1951). He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for local reporting on a mass murder in Camden, N.J.

Introduction

In the 1940s and 1950s, college basketball had a growing and dedicated following of fans. While a far cry from the popular sport it is now, college basketball drew a great deal of interest from...