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Outside Shooter: A Memoir
Philip Raisor
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Description for Outside Shooter: A Memoir
Paperback. Here, Philip Raisor recounts the hard knocks and hard-won triumphs of a basketball odyssey across 1950s America, from Indiana to Kansas to Louisiana, and from adolescence to adulthood. He also captures the period in his life in which he gradually stopped defining himself in terms of the game. Series: Sports and American Culture Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGS; WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Philip Raisor lost two of the most storied basketball games ever played. He started at guard for the Muncie High Bearcats, who fell in the 1954 Indiana state final to tiny Milan, the David-over-Goliath event that inspired the movie Hoosiers. On a basketball scholarship to the University of Kansas, he watched his Wilt Chamberlain-led Jayhawks lose the 1957 NCAA championship in triple overtime to North Carolina. In Outside Shooter, Raisor recounts the hard knocks and hard-won triumphs of a basketball odyssey across 1950s America, from Indiana to Kansas to Louisiana, and from adolescence to adulthood. This was an era in ... Read more
Philip Raisor lost two of the most storied basketball games ever played. He started at guard for the Muncie High Bearcats, who fell in the 1954 Indiana state final to tiny Milan, the David-over-Goliath event that inspired the movie Hoosiers. On a basketball scholarship to the University of Kansas, he watched his Wilt Chamberlain-led Jayhawks lose the 1957 NCAA championship in triple overtime to North Carolina. In Outside Shooter, Raisor recounts the hard knocks and hard-won triumphs of a basketball odyssey across 1950s America, from Indiana to Kansas to Louisiana, and from adolescence to adulthood. This was an era in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Series
Sports and American Culture Series
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826214843
SKU
V9780826214843
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About Philip Raisor
Philip Raisor is Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He is the editor of Tuned and Under Tension: The Recent Poetry of W. D. Snodgrass.
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