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Fred C. Hobson

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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.

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