The Miracle of St Anthony's
How an impoverished school achieved amazing success on and off the basketball court.
In the late 1960s, parole officer Bob Hurley became basketball coach at St Anthony鈥檚 High School in Jersey City, New Jersey. In the years that followed, as the city got poorer and its streets more dangerous, Hurley鈥檚 infamously exacting coaching style turned class after class of young men into championship material and put St Anthony鈥檚鈥攁 school that didn鈥檛 even have its own gym鈥攐n the basketball map, winning multiple state championships and hundreds of games. Former NBA basketball player and one-time Democratic Party politician Terry Dehere tells the story of this very special high school with help from several generations of St. Anthony鈥檚 players and supporters.
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