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This author described how his decision to join the Maple club delayed his political development and set him off from Learie Constantine and Wilton St. Hill for many years. A Joseph O'Neill essay quotes a book by this non-Kipling author in asking “What do they know of America who only America know?” (15[1])A book by this author decries any attempt to understand the Victorian era without considering W. G. (*) Grace; (10[1])that book is an autobiographical history of cricket titled (10[1])Beyond a Boundary. (10[1]-5[1])Conversations with Léon Damas inspired a book by this author that compared Pericles and Jefferson to Toussaint L'Ouverture and argued (10[1])the Haitian Revolution was the inheritor of French radical tradition. For 10 points, which Marxist Trinidadian scholar wrote The Black Jacobins? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: C.L.R. James [or Cyril Lionel Robert James]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jordan BrownsteinMaryland B-Chicago B5115
Davis Everson-RoseEpic GamesAmartya Senpai Notice Me6910
Matt JacksonChicago AWUSTL7810
NickMojo ShojoOSU8110
Patrick QuionPurdueNorthwestern81-5
Mitch McCullarIllinois A+Michigan10110
Chris SimsNorthwesternPurdue12210

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2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y6100%17%17%83.67
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%0%33%103.67
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%0%0%82.67
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%33%0%70.00