Indexed works
Works about or by Fred C. Hobson. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Off the rim : basketball and other religions in a Carolina childhood
Hobson, Fred · 2006 · University of Missouri Press
Fred Hobson's memoir of growing up in the North Carolina hills in Yadkin County with basketball as a second religion, and of a brief spell as a walk-on player for the Tar Heels. Chapters include 'Walk-On', 'Yadkin', 'Democrats and Methodists', 'My Magic Season', 'Romance of the Book' and 'Second Childhood', following a boyhood relived each season through Carolina basketball. Published 2006 by the University of Missouri Press, 260 pages.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Hobson, Fred C., 1943-.
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