The Miracle of St Anthony's

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1960s, parole officer Bob Hurley became basketball coach at St Anthony’s High School in Jersey City, New Jersey. In the years that followed, as the city got poorer and its streets more dangerous, Hurley’s infamously exacting coaching style turned class after class of young men into championship material and put St Anthony’s—a school that didn’t even have its own gym—on 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’s players and supporters.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Linda and I'm Mercy.
0:02.0	We're these weird girls.
0:03.0	They don't even sound right.
0:04.0	Before you get to the podcast you've actually chosen to download,
0:07.0	we're here to tell you about our new podcast,
0:09.0	Parent Land.
0:10.0	It's a podcast for anyone interested in raising children.
0:13.6	The idea is that listeners email in their questions
0:15.8	and we use scientific evidence and culture
0:17.8	to try and find some answers.
0:19.2	Parent land to the rescue.
0:20.8	We've been having a good old chat about what we're hoping to get from
0:23.2	parent land. So if you want to hear what we've been talking about please search
0:26.3	for parent land wherever you find your podcasts. My name is Terry Deere, former NBA basketball player and Democratic Party politician.
0:41.0	And we're at Garfield Park in Jersey City, just across the street from the housing projects where I grew up.
0:46.0	Back in 1994, when I was 21 years old, I gave $75,000 to refurbish the park and give something back to the community that raised me.
0:56.5	But I wouldn't have made it to the NBA and made that money if it wasn't for the legendary school called St Anthony's and a very dedicated
1:05.1	coach Bob Hurley. In his time Coach Hurley has trained teams of first-class players and
1:10.8	turn hundreds of lives around.
1:13.0	You're from Jersey, everybody knows Bobby Hurley's singer.
1:16.0	All right?
1:17.0	Bobby Hurley used basketball as an avenue to reach kids that many would have said were unreachable.
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