Dwight
Slaughter graduated from Verbum Dei High School, a school with
one of the top 10 winning basketball teams of all time. While at
Verbum Dei High School Dwight was voted number one player in the
Country in 1972 by different sports magazines. He then went on
to further his education and play basketball at Cal State Los Angeles
from 1972 to 1976—a period that would set a precedent with new laws
changing how colleges accept athletes. During his athletic career,
Slaughter was interviewed by such greats as Howard Cosell, on his
show SportsBeat and in his book, I Never Played the
Game; Morley Safer from 60 Minutes; and John Chancellor
from World Nightly News. He was voted by ESPN and Sports
Illustrated as one of the top 100 basketball players in the
State of California.
Book Genre:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
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Dwight Slaughter
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Date: 2/14/2014
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Dwight
Slaughter graduated from Verbum Dei High School, a school with one of
the top 10 winning basketball teams of all time. While at Verbum Dei
High School Dwight was voted number one player in the Country in 1972
by different sports magazines. He then went on to further his
education and play basketball at Cal State Los Angeles from 1972 to
1976—a period that would set a precedent with new laws changing how
colleges accept athletes. During his athletic career, Slaughter was
interviewed by such greats as Howard Cosell, on his show SportsBeat
and in his book, I Never Played the Game; Morley Safer from 60
Minutes; and John Chancellor from World Nightly News. He was voted by
ESPN and Sports Illustrated as one of the top 100 basketball players
in the State of California. As a child, Slaughter relied on
basketball to build his self-esteem and relieve the stress of mental
and physical abuse. His gripping memoir follows his public career and
takes the reader inside his personal life as well—into a childhood
of abuse, betrayal…even murder.
Excerpt:
During
his athletic career, Slaughter was interviewed by such greats as
Howard Cosell, on his show SportsBeat and in
his book, I Never Played the Game; Morley Safer
from 60 Minutes; and John Chancellor from World
Nightly News. He was voted by ESPN and Sports
Illustrated as one of the top 100 basketball players in
the State of California.
As a child, Slaughter
relied on basketball to build his self-esteem and relieve the stress
of mental and physical abuse. His gripping memoir follows his public
career and takes the reader inside his personal life of childhood
abuse, betrayal…and murder.
As the author explains, his
prowess with a basketball masked an escape from a tarnished life off
the court.
“I grew up being treated
like nothing, so I was driven to make something of my life. Sport
allowed me to mix with people who cared about me, develop a passion
that got me out of the house and achieve things that would win me the
acceptance I couldn’t get at home,” says Slaughter, who is a
committed mentor to both young and adult men.
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