On August 1, 1936, Irving "Toots" Meretsky, a skinny, 24-year-old Jewish kid from Windsor, Ontario, stood in the Olympiastadion within Berlin's monumental Reichssportfeld, and looked up at the man who was the scourge of his people in Germany, a dark, furious figure with an absurd little mustache. "He looks like Charlie Chaplin," Toots thought, smiling to himself. Toots and his teammates, including another Jewish basketball legend, would go on to bring a kind of glory to Canada that has never been repeated.
Silver Lining: Windsor's Ford V8s at the Nazi Games
