{"product_id":"adolph-rupp-and-the-rise-of-kentucky-basketball-9780813177205","title":"Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnown as the \"Man in the Brown Suit\" and the \"Baron of the Bluegrass \" Adolph Rupp (19011977) is a towering figure in the history of college athletics. In Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball  historian James Duane Bolin goes beyond the wins and losses to present the fullest account of Rupps life to date based on more than one-hundred interviews with Rupp  his assistant coaches  former players  University of Kentucky presidents and faculty members  and his admirers and critics  as well as court transcripts  newspaper accounts  and other archival materials. His teams won four NCAA championships (1948  1949  1951  and 1958)  the 1946 National Invitation Tournament title  and twenty-seven Southeastern Conference regular season titles. Rupps influence on the game of college basketball and his impact on Kentucky culture are both much broader than his impressive record on the court.  Bolin covers Rupps early yearsfrom his rural upbringing in a German Mennonite family in Halstead  Kansas  through his undergraduate years at the University of Kansas playing on teams coached by Phog Allen and taking classes with James Naismith  the inventor of basketballto his success at Kentucky. This revealing portrait of a pivotal figure in American sports also exposes how college basketball changed  for better or worse  in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651670499381,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813177200","price":29.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813177205.jpg?v=1781837242","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/adolph-rupp-and-the-rise-of-kentucky-basketball-9780813177205","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}