Sports Illustrated Excerpt

Read the Sports Illustrated excerpt from Strong Inside here. SI.com features a passage from the book describing Perry Wallace’s first game at Ole Miss, the first time an African American varsity basketball player had ever taken the court in Oxford. It was an ordeal Wallace later described as a “long, hellish trauma,” but one that also came with a triumphant conclusion of sorts. While the excerpt runs online only, the Dec. 15 issue of Sports Illustrated (the “Sportsman of the Year” issue) also features a brief review of Strong Inside, praising the book as bringing “to life the Civil Rights struggle in gripping, personal detail.”