The Graves County Boys : A Tale of Kentucky Basketball, Perseverance, and the Unlikely Championship of the Cuba Cubs /
In 1952, just one year after Coach Adolph Rupp's University of Kentucky Wildcats won their third national championship in four years, an unlikely high school basketball team from rural Graves County, Kentucky, stole the spotlight and the media's attention. Inspired by young coach Jack Stor...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Lexington, KY :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2013]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | In 1952, just one year after Coach Adolph Rupp's University of Kentucky Wildcats won their third national championship in four years, an unlikely high school basketball team from rural Graves County, Kentucky, stole the spotlight and the media's attention. Inspired by young coach Jack Story and by the Harlem Globetrotters, the Cuba Cubs grabbed headlines when they rose from relative obscurity to defeat the big-city favorite and win the state championship. A classic underdog tale, this book chronicles how five boys from a tiny high school in southwestern Kentucky captured the hearts. |
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Description: | Originally published: Nashville, TN : Rutledge Hill Press, 1999. Previously titled: When Cuba conquered Kentucky, 1999. |
Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (262 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780813144191 |