"How in the World Did No One Know About It?" (1936)

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It’s been one hell of a season for unhinged anti-semitism, so I thought it might be a good time to re-up this piece I wrote for ESPN over a decade ago, about a group of basketball players in New York City who took a long-forgotten stand against the Nazis, and the complexities of their decision.

For years, the men said nothing at all. One day they went into…