Bobby Joe Was from Highland Park: Musings on Glory Road
2007; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 37; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00064246.2007.11413395
ISSN2162-5387
Autores Tópico(s)Sports, Gender, and Society
Resumotucky Wildcats in the 1966 NCAA championships, with coach Don Haskins leading the first all-black starting line-up in the history of college basketball. In high school, in Highland Michigan, I never suffered the taunts, teases, and hazing many students did. Although I was a skinny freshman in an urban high school, who was quiet and shy, I got to stand on the Wall during class break with the seniors and talk loud and play cool. I was Bobby Joe's man. He was the hero of the Highland Park basketball team and consequently, the reigning king of the Park, so he could make you special. Bobby never lost that ability. It is for that reason I have mixed feelings about Glory Road, the 2006 movie directed by James Gartner, Bobby came from a long line of athletes. His older brother, Virgil, was a natural, whom Bobby credited with teaching him everything he knew about sports. The brothers' father, Virgil senior, was a legend around the neighborhood before his boys took up where he left off. And they didn't play just basketball. In fact, baseball might have been their best sport. On the corner of Hamilton and Grand in the Park, some claimed Bobby Joe could throw a ball from centerfield on a line and kill a fly at home plate, a d that, despite his slight built, he could hit a ball as far as he wanted to. He covered cen-
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