University of Regina Archives & Special Collections, Theodore Allen Heinrich Fonds
This excerpt is from the new book, “GAMES OF DECEPTION: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany.”
With four-inch-wide white tape pressed down on the grass of the Olympic Stadium serving as foul lines and a soccer goal used as a backstop behind home plate, two teams of obscure American amateur baseball players drawn from college and club teams played a seven-inning exhibition game on Aug. 12, 1936, invited by German Olympic officials to demonstrate their sport.