The Graves County Boys: A Tale of Kentucky Basketball, Perseverance, and the Unlikely Championship of the Cuba Cubs

by Marianne Walker

Book Overview

In 1952, a year when 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813143055
• ISBN13: 9780813143057
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"