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Glory Road
My Story of the 1966 Ncaa Basketball Championship And How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds And Changed America Forever
by Dan Wetzel ; Don Haskins ; Daniel Wezel
ISBN: 1401307914
ISBN-13: 9781401307912
Format: Paperback
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"...GLORY ROAD tells a good story, and in many ways an eye-opening one." -- Gerald Eskenazi
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published date: 2005
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.5 pounds
Pages: 254
Publisher's Notes
The Hall of Fame basketball coach describes how, in 1966, as coach of Texas Western College, used a starting lineup of five black players to unseat the top-ranked team of the University of Kentucky, an event that paved the way for the desegregation of all college teams in the South. Original. 35,000 first printing. (A Buena Vista Pictures film, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by James Gartner, releasing January 2006, starring Josh Lucas) (Sports & Recreation)
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