Download or read book Getting Open written by Tom Graham and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The engaging story of Bill Garrett--the Jackie Robinson of college basketball--who joined the basketball program at Indiana University in 1947 and broke the gentleman's agreement that had barred black players from the Big Ten. Within a year of his graduation from IU in 1951, there were six African American basketball players on Big Ten teams. Soon tens, then hundreds, and finally thousands walked through the door Garrett had opened.