Teamwork: Ashland's 1961 Championship Basketball Season - Hardcover

Mark Maynard

9781931672696: Teamwork: Ashland's 1961 Championship Basketball Season

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931672695 ISBN 13: 9781931672696

Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2011

Billy Reed, highly respected and award-winning Kentucky sportswriter, called the 1961 Ashland High School Tomcats basketball team the greatest Sweet Sixteen (Kentucky state tournament) champion of them all. A collaboration of memories of the Tomcats teammates and Coach Bob Wright, Teamwork tracks the development of that group of boys from the time they played pick-up games at the local YMCA to the day they won the Kentucky state basketball championship. Billy Reed: ...they played the game the way I think it should be played: with heart, skill, and precision. Today so much emphasis is on individual talent and sheer athleticism, rather than team accomplishments. There s a lot of beauty to the game, the team aspects of it, that seem to be forgotten. That team played the game so well together and were so unselfish. The thing was, they really didn t have a star. Everybody made a contribution in different ways. Individually they all had special things they did. Collectively they were the epitome of team .

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"The thing was, they really didn't have a star. Everybody made a contribution in different ways. Individually they all had special things they did. Collectively they were the epitome of team." – Billy Reed, Kentucky sportswriter

About the Author:

Mark Maynard has been on the staff of The Independent since 1975, first as a sports writer, then sports editor, and now managing editor of the daily newspaper in northeastern Kentucky. He has covered many significant sports events in the area over the past thirty-five years and has won more than fifty writing awards from the Kentucky Press Association.Teamwork is his second book. He also authored Mark My Words, published in the spring of 2010.Maynard and his wife, Beth, live in Ashland, Kentucky, where they raised two children.

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