Craig Leener: It Was Never about Basketball & All Roads Lead to Lawrence
Andrew Malan Milward: Jayhawker
Week of March 14, 2021: How Phog Allen brought basketball to the Olympics in Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany by Andrew Maraniss; a Jayhawk fan takes a long, hard look at his basketball obsession and Kansas history in Jayhawker: On History, Home, and Basketball by Andrew Malan Milward; and two YA books about supernatural forces behind the game -- This Was Never About Basketball and All Roads Lead to Lawrence by Craig Leener. This program originally aired on KPR Presents on March 8th, 2020.