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- Hoop Crazy: The Lives of Clair Bee and Chip Hilton
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
summary
Clair Bee (1896-1983) was a hugely successful basketball coach at Rider College and Long Island University with a 412 and 87 record before his career was derailed in 1951 by a point-shaving scandal. In the trial that sent his star player, Sherman White, to prison, the judge excoriated Bee for creating a morally lax culture that contributed to his players' involvement with gambling. To a certain extent, Bee agreed with the judge's scolding, concluding that coaches, himself included, had become so driven to succeed on the court that they had lost sight of the educational role sports should play. His coaching career effectively over, Bee launched an effort to reform the ills he saw in college sports, and he did so in the pages of the Chip Hilton novels for young readers. He began the series in 1948, but it was the post-scandal books that he used as teaching tools. The books mirrored some of the events of the gambling scandal and were Bee's attempt to reform the problems plaguing college sports. He used his fiction to posit a better sports world that he hoped his young readers would construct and inhabit. The Chip Hilton books were extremely popular and have become a classic series, with over two million copies sold to date. Hoop Crazy is the fascinating story of Clair Bee and his star character Chip Hilton and the ways in which their lives, real and fictional, were intertwined.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xx
- The Early Years: 1896–1931
- CHAPTER 2: Grafton and Valley Falls
- pp. 17-34
- Bee at Long Island University: 1931–52
- CHAPTER 8: Jim Crow and the Spit Bucket
- pp. 121-140
- CHAPTER 9: Thanksgiving 1939
- pp. 141-158
- CHAPTER 11: Chip Hilton and Race Relations
- pp. 173-186
- CHAPTER 13: The Fix and the Fixers
- pp. 201-220
- CHAPTER 14: Sherman White and Coach Bee
- pp. 221-234
- CHAPTER 16: Bee the Psalm Singer
- pp. 249-266
- CHAPTER 17 Chip and the Scandal
- pp. 267-286
- Life after Long Island University:1952–83
- CHAPTER 18: The Bullets and Beyond
- pp. 289-304
- Bibliography
- pp. 377-382
- Back Cover
- p. BC
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610755290
Related ISBN(s)
9781557286413
MARC Record
OCLC
862370122
Pages
426
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013