Download or read book Comeback Cagers written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a hard-luck season and a stunning upset victory over Northern State, the State University basketball team finds out a selection committee has arbitrarily excluded State from National Tournament competition. Chip and Soapy, his best pal, don’t give up as they battle to sustain the morale of their teammates and to change the committee’s ruling.

Download or read book Hoop Crazy written by Dennis Gildea and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clair Bee (1896-1983) was a hugely successful basketball coach at Rider College and Long Island University with a 412 and 87 record before his career was derailed in 1951 by a point-shaving scandal. In the trial that sent his star player, Sherman White, to prison, the judge excoriated Bee for creating a morally lax culture that contributed to his players' involvement with gambling. To a certain extent, Bee agreed with the judge's scolding, concluding that coaches, himself included, had become so driven to succeed on the court that they had lost sight of the educational role sports should play. His coaching career effectively over, Bee launched an effort to reform the ills he saw in college sports, and he did so in the pages of the Chip Hilton novels for young readers. He began the series in 1948, but it was the post-scandal books that he used as teaching tools. The books mirrored some of the events of the gambling scandal and were Bee's attempt to reform the problems plaguing college sports. He used his fiction to posit a better sports world that he hoped his young readers would construct and inhabit. The Chip Hilton books were extremely popular and have become a classic series, with over two million copies sold to date. Hoop Crazy is the fascinating story of Clair Bee and his star character Chip Hilton and the ways in which their lives, real and fictional, were intertwined.

Download or read book Fiery Fullback written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final installment finds Chip, now a senior at State, hoping to quarterback the football team all the way to the Rose Bowl-and using his wholesome values to enlist the full support of a troublesome new player.

Download or read book Ten Seconds to Play written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chip takes a job at a summer camp and meets a talented athlete who may be joining him on the football team at State University, and whose arrogance hides a secret problem.

Download or read book Hoop Crazy written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smooth-talking man who claims to have played basketball with Chip's father creates dissension on the Valley Falls high school team and plans to use Big Chip's pottery formula in his latest scam.

Download or read book Backboard Fever written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an injury prevents him from joining the college basketball team, Chip keeps busy serving as an emergency replacement coach for the high school and participating in an important basket shooting tournament.

Download or read book Fence Busters written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the freshman baseball team at State University tries to live up to its nickname, "Fence Busters," Chip must endure an injury and friction with a jealous teammate.

Download or read book Pay Off Pitch written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's baseball season again, and Chip and his sophomore friends hope to build on their freshman success with the varsity team. But cliques within the team and rumors of a NCAA rules violation endanger the team's championship chances. The situation comes to a crisis when Coach Rockwell receives an anonymous tip naming five players as suspects-among them is his number-one pitcher, Chip Hilton!

Download or read book Fourth Down Showdown written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chip Hilton and his fellow sophomore stars of State's football team are riding high after their opening victory. State's hopes are suddenly shattered when Chip and his sophomore pals are all suspended for breaking curfew. There's a very good reason why Chip breaks curfew. Chip and his friends decide making the neighborhood a decent place is more important even than playing in State's big game.

Download or read book Dugout Jinx written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After graduating from high school, Chip is invited to join the Parkville Bears as a summer intern and he manages to save the Bears' season--and his own baseball future--from being spoiled by the schemes of an unscrupulous man.

Download or read book Triple Threat Trouble written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trouble starts at State’s training camp when two obnoxious sophomores, nicknamed the Touchdown Twins, become more interested in personal glory than in team play. This leads to a showdown with Chip. The antagonism grows and eventually engulfs the entire squad to such an extent that an important game is lost. It appears that State’s defense of the conference title is hopeless. But Chip, playing in every game despite an injured shoulder, inspires the team to keep fighting. Through it all, Chip finds time to help a confused high school football star, Skip Miller, make the biggest decision of his life and struggles to convince the Touchdown Twins that you can’t win without team play and a tough, hard-hitting spirit.

Download or read book Backcourt Ace written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State University’s basketball team is determined to give Coach Corrigan a proper victory send-off as he prepares to take a sabbatical leave following the Holiday Invitational. However, the State team, even with the nation’s top-scorer Chip Hilton, has trouble, and it could mean defeat in the tournament. They have no one tall enough to go up against their opponent’s giant pivot men, and they have begun the season with three straight losses. The solution seems to present itself when Chip finds seven-foot Branch Phillips, a State junior who has transferred from another college. However, Branch is supporting his mother and three sisters and has no time for basketball. But Chip and his friends overcome by pitting ingenuity and teamwork against all obstacles.

Download or read book Hardcourt Upset written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000-05-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After winning the Holiday Invitational Tournament, State University's basketball team had looked forward to a season of smashing conquests. But when Chip Hilton is benched because of a knee injury and the champs are beaten by their hometown rival, things take a turn for the worse.

Download or read book Ball Tales written by Michelle Nolan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of American sports fiction traces depictions of baseball, basketball and football in works for all age levels from early dime novels through the 1960s. Chapters cover dime novel heroes Frank and Dick Merriwell; the explosion of sports novels before World War II and its influence on the authors who later wrote for baby boom readers; how sports novels persisted during the Great Depression; the rise and decline of sports pulps; why sports comics failed; postwar heroes Chip Hilton and Bronc Burnett; the lack of sports fiction for females; Duane Decker's Blue Sox books; and the classic John R. Tunis novels. Appendices list sports pulp titles and comic books featuring sports fiction.

Download or read book Clutch Hitter written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While playing baseball for the steel company where he works during the summer, high school star athlete Chip Hilton comes up against professionals participating illegally in amateur sport.

Download or read book Tournament Crisis written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivals for a starting assignment on State University's varsity basketball team, Chip Hilton and Jimmy Chung wage a fierce contest for the honor. When Jimmy's father becomes ill, Jimmy must leave State to run the family's restaurant. Chip masterminds a solution that benefits the Chung family, Jimmy, and the State U basketball team.

Download or read book A Pass and a Prayer written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final season of team captain Chip's football career at Valley Falls High finds him fighting a new coach, who threatens to destroy the fair play, sportsmanship, and good citizenship that have made his team great.