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Blue Yonder : Kentucky : The United State of Basketball
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by Lonnie Wheeler
Sales Rank: 1183622
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$5.94
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 307 pages
Published by: Orange Frazer Press March 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1882203208
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1882203208
Book Dimensions:
10.3 x 7.4 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Book Description
This is an impeccably true story about a state's obsession, but it masquerades as a fast-paced cultural novel featuring at least a dozen of Kentucky's favorite characters. Even when the outcome is preordained-i.e., the University of Kentucky's 1997 trip to the Final Four-the readers cling precariously to their chairs, watching the astounding picture unfold. For in this unusual and disarming book, what happens next isn't always predictable. Wheeler, the author of eight books, including the best-selling I Had a Hammer (with Henry Aaron), begins with a fan camping out thirty-eight days in front of Lexington's Memorial Coliseum while waiting for tickets to a practice. Wheeler then takes the reader back in time to when basketball authoritarian Adolph Rupp established Kentucky's national reputation. Segueing deftly between the contemporary resurgence of Kentucky
basketball under Rick Pitino and all the eventful turns between these two legendary coaching icons, the reader is taken on a star-studded trip down memory's free-throw lane. 320 pages. Hardcover.
Reader Reviews
This book puts in perspective the "official" religion of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As a UK student last year during the 1998 National Championship run I never would have guessed the ammount of media attention the CATS draw...can you picture your local TV stations having live feeds when the team plane lands at the local airport...that is just a small glance to the fever that overtakes KY during March. This book puts you into the heart of KY. I met the author at Joseph-Beth Booksellers last year in Lexington as he signed the book...there was not a large crowd there during the signing...the CATS were on TV.
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