Martha's Vineyard Basketball: How a Resort League Defied Notions of Race and Class follows the rich history of basketball on the Island and tells the stories of the players and coaches themselves.

Bijan C. Bayne is an award-winning Washington-based freelance columnist and critic and a founding member of the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Herald, and SLAM, among others. Bayne is the author of Sky Kings: Black Pioneers of Professional Basketball, which was named to the Suggested Reading List of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Wil Haygood
Preface: The Courts: A Summer Love Affair
Chapter 1 The Poorest County in Massachusetts
Chapter 2 A Love of the Game
Chapter 3 They Are Your Basic Schoolyard Ballplayers
Chapter 4 "Those Kids Can Play!"
Chapter 5 The Jaws Years
Chapter 6 The Black Vacation Haven
Chapter 7 Friendships Before Facebook
Chapter 8 The Hog Call and "No Form Norm"
Chapter 9 "That's All There Was to Do in the Winter"
Chapter 10 Coming of Age
Chapter 11 Seasons of Change
Afterword: A Look Forward and Backward
Commonly Used Terms: A Vineyard Basketball Glossary
References
Index
About the Author