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084 $aSPO004000$aSOC001000$aHIS036140$2bisacsh
100 1 $aChristgau, John.
245 10 $aMichael and the whiz kids :$ba story of basketball, race, and suburbia in the 1960s /$cJohn Christgau.
264 1 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$c[2013]
300 $a183 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Imagine a boy, five feet tall and one hundred pounds, who wants to play high school basketball. Now imagine that he was blind until the age of six and that he's the first black student to attend his suburban school. And there you have Michael Thompson in 1965 in San Bruno, California. He played at the school where a young English teacher was coaching "lightweight basketball," a competition for smaller players that has since disappeared. The team that Coach John Christgau put together came to be called the Whiz Kids for the way they rocketed up and down the court, led by Michael and invariably winning. Michael and the Whiz Kids tells the story of the team's 1968 championship season. It is a tale of cliffhanger games and players as outsized in character as they are short in stature, from the wild-haired, bespectacled "Professor" to the well-traveled Latvian dubbed "Suitcase" to the quiet and tenacious "Salt," as in "of the earth." But it is also a tale of the time--of counterculture, suburbia, integration, and racial brawls erupting on the court. In Christgau's deft telling, it is an absorbing, often comic story of coming of age, for coach and Whiz Kids alike."--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"The story of Christgau's 1968 season coaching lightweight basketball in California"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 163-183).
610 20 $aCrestmoor High School (San Bruno, Calif.)$xBasketball$xHistory.
610 20 $aCrestmoor Falcons (Basketball team)$xHistory.
650 0 $aBasketball$xSocial aspects$zCalifornia.
650 7 $aSPORTS & RECREATION / Basketball.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY).$2bisacsh