Pride of the Panthers: Georgia's Greatest Basketball Dynasty - 2nd Edition - Brossura

Powell, Billy L

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ISBN 10: 1514862557 ISBN 13: 9781514862551

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Riassunto

“Pride of the Panthers” tells the legendary story of Perry High School, which during the decades of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, becamethe greatest high school basketball dynasty in Georgia History. Its coach, Eric P. Staples, was the winningest high school basketball coach in America. His teams captured a phenomenal 83 percent of their games. This included 25 district/region championships and eight state titles.The year after Coach Staples retired from coaching, his assistant coach for many years, Paul Hartman, elevated to head coach, led his 1966 Perry team to a ninth and unprecedented state championship. The book takes you year-by-year, from the 1933 season through the 1969 season, replete with team rosters, team photos, and team won-loss records. Also included are box scores and reporting commentary for pivotal regularseason games and tournament competition. As special addenda to the book, a section has been added for the Perry High girls’ basketball teamsand another section for the Perry High cheerleaders. The book was authored by Billy Powell, who played on Perry’s 1953 statechampionship team, and who was an eyewitness to the Perry teams that played from the early 1940s through the late1960s. Powell has publishedfour books on Amazon.com. United States Senator Sam Nunn, who grew up with Powell in Perry and was an “all-state” basketball player, wrote theforeword to the book. Perry, Georgia, was a basketball town, whose citizens took great pride in its winning teams and followed their play throughout the state. Senator Sam Nunn wrote, “If you liked the movie‘Hoosiers’ and enjoy high school basketball, thisbook is for you.”

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The book was authored by Billy Powell, who played on Perry’s 1953 state championship team, and who was an eyewitness to the Perry teams that played from the early 1940s through the late 1960s. Powell has published five books on Amazon.com. ranging from history to religion to sports to murders and sensational stories in a small town.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1514862557
• ISBN 13: 9781514862551
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 312