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The Baron and the Bear: Rupp´s Runts, Haskins´s Miners, and the Season That Changed Basketball Forever
David Kingsley Snell
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Description for The Baron and the Bear: Rupp´s Runts, Haskins´s Miners, and the Season That Changed Basketball Forever
Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 28 photographs, 1 appendix. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JJPK; HBJK; JFFJ; JFSL1; WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 608.
In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, an all-white University of Kentucky team was beaten by a team from Texas Western College (now UTEP) that fielded only black players. The game, played in the middle of the racially turbulent 1960s—part David and Goliath in short pants, part emancipation proclamation of college basketball—helped destroy stereotypes about black athletes.
Filled with revealing anecdotes, The Baron and the Bear is the story of two intensely passionate coaches and the teams they led through the ups and downs of a college basketball season. In the twilight of his legendary career, Kentucky’s Adolph ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803288553
SKU
V9780803288553
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-14
About David Kingsley Snell
David Kingsley Snell was a correspondent for ABC News covering everything from the Vietnam War to presidential campaigns to Apollo lunar missions. He is the author of Mike Fright: How to Succeed in Media Interviews When Mike Wallace Comes Calling. Nolan Richardson played for Texas Western under Don Haskins from 1961 to 1963. The first African American coach at a ... Read more
Reviews for The Baron and the Bear: Rupp´s Runts, Haskins´s Miners, and the Season That Changed Basketball Forever
"An easy and enjoyable read and one the reader won't be able to put down."—Felix F. Chávez, El Paso Times "This is a book that should be read by sports fans, especially those who enjoy college basketball. . . . It is difficult to tell a familiar story and make it new, yet Snell accomplishes this very task."—Tony Calandrillo, Sport ... Read more