{"product_id":"9780751534887","title":"Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Controversy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere have been innumerable biographies of cricketers. Peter Oborne's outstanding biography of Basil D'Oliveira is something else. It brings together sport, politics and race. It is the story of how a black South African defied incredible odds and came to play cricket for England, of how a single man escaped from apartheid and came to fulfil his prodigious sporting potential. It is a story of the conquest of racial prejudice, both in South Africa and in the heart of the English sporting establishment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story comes to its climax in the so-called D'Oliveira Affair of 1968, when John Vorster, the South African Prime Minister, banned the touring MCC side because of the inclusion of a black man. This episode marked the start of the twenty-year sporting isolation of South Africa that ended only with the collapse of apartheid itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010518401264,"sku":"9780751534887","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780751534887_p0.jpg?v=1763639190","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780751534887","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}