I got it for Christmas, you would love it.
BTW 1980 Hawkeye BB team is having reunion at the Iowa vs. Minn BB game. All members including Ronnie Lester will be there signing autographs. Fly up here and I'll get you tickets for the game.
Black and Gold Memories
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George Wine has done it again.
The former 25-year University of Iowa sports information director has written and edited a new Hawkeye sports book called 'Black and Gold Memories (The Hawkeyes of the 20th Century).' A few years ago, Wine collaborated with celebrated Iowa football coach Hayden Fry to produce a book called, 'A High Porch Picnic.' That was about the life of one man. This is about the sports exploits of many men, all of whom wore the black and gold between 1900 and 2000. Nicely bound and handsomely covered with several Hawkeye Hall of Fame faces, the book would be an excellent coffee table or bookshelf addition, and, until read from cover to cover, might be welcome at bedside for late-night reading. I say the latter because many old-timers like myself can stay awake to read at bedtime for only about eight minutes, and that's about the time it would take to perhaps read one 'essay,' as Wine calls them, of which there are 105. Most of the essays first appeared over a period of five years or so in The Voice of the Hawkeyes, a publication dedicated to UI sports but not affiliated with the university or athletic department. The essays are much too numerous to mention in a brief review, but Wine covers such memorable Hawkeye football coaches as Alden Knipe at the turn of the 20th century who not only was a Big Ten title-winning coach, but also an opera singer and writer/illustrator of children's books; Howard Jones, the architect of great Hawkeye teams of the early 1920s who later gained fame as the coach of 'The Thundering Herd' at USC; Forest Evashevski, who gave Iowa an unmatched run of five years of national prominence in the 1950s; and Hayden Fry, who captured national headlines for 20 years after setting out to 'scratch where it itches.' You will find out the football player Wine picks as the greatest ever at Iowa, how Ozzie Simmons became the centerpiece of the 'Floyd of Rosedale' controversy and trophy, many essays on Nile Kinnick and the naming of Iowa Stadium in his honor, Wine's choice for top 10 Hawkeye football games of the 20th century, a look or two at Chuck Long, three memorable football victories over Ohio State, Hawkeye Homecomimg games that stir fond memories, etc., etc., etc. While most of the essays are about football and men's basketball, recalling such highlight coaches as Bucky O'Connor, Ralph Miller and Tom Davis, as well as the five best teams and five best players of the 20th century, you'll enjoy chapters on wrestling coaches Dan Gable and Gary Kurdelmeier, baseballers Mace Brown and Bob Pearl, track coach Francis Cretzmeyer, athletic directors Paul Belting and Bump Elliott, PA man Father Bob Holzhammer, half-century broadcaster Jim Zabel and far too many others to mention. In short, the book goes from Alden Knipe to Jim Zabel and that's about as 'A to Z' as you can get. 'Black and Gold Memories' is both informative and entertaining and I would highly recommend it to any Hawkeye fan young or old. (Not just incidentally, it would make a great Christmas gift.) Al Grady, UI Class of 1949, Voice of the Hawkeyes columnist and former Iowa City Press-Citizen sports editor.
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BTW 1980 Hawkeye BB team is having reunion at the Iowa vs. Minn BB game. All members including Ronnie Lester will be there signing autographs. Fly up here and I'll get you tickets for the game.
Black and Gold Memories
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=590 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD width="100%">Al Grady, a fan of the Hawkeyes, October 23, 2003, <NOBR>
The former 25-year University of Iowa sports information director has written and edited a new Hawkeye sports book called 'Black and Gold Memories (The Hawkeyes of the 20th Century).' A few years ago, Wine collaborated with celebrated Iowa football coach Hayden Fry to produce a book called, 'A High Porch Picnic.' That was about the life of one man. This is about the sports exploits of many men, all of whom wore the black and gold between 1900 and 2000. Nicely bound and handsomely covered with several Hawkeye Hall of Fame faces, the book would be an excellent coffee table or bookshelf addition, and, until read from cover to cover, might be welcome at bedside for late-night reading. I say the latter because many old-timers like myself can stay awake to read at bedtime for only about eight minutes, and that's about the time it would take to perhaps read one 'essay,' as Wine calls them, of which there are 105. Most of the essays first appeared over a period of five years or so in The Voice of the Hawkeyes, a publication dedicated to UI sports but not affiliated with the university or athletic department. The essays are much too numerous to mention in a brief review, but Wine covers such memorable Hawkeye football coaches as Alden Knipe at the turn of the 20th century who not only was a Big Ten title-winning coach, but also an opera singer and writer/illustrator of children's books; Howard Jones, the architect of great Hawkeye teams of the early 1920s who later gained fame as the coach of 'The Thundering Herd' at USC; Forest Evashevski, who gave Iowa an unmatched run of five years of national prominence in the 1950s; and Hayden Fry, who captured national headlines for 20 years after setting out to 'scratch where it itches.' You will find out the football player Wine picks as the greatest ever at Iowa, how Ozzie Simmons became the centerpiece of the 'Floyd of Rosedale' controversy and trophy, many essays on Nile Kinnick and the naming of Iowa Stadium in his honor, Wine's choice for top 10 Hawkeye football games of the 20th century, a look or two at Chuck Long, three memorable football victories over Ohio State, Hawkeye Homecomimg games that stir fond memories, etc., etc., etc. While most of the essays are about football and men's basketball, recalling such highlight coaches as Bucky O'Connor, Ralph Miller and Tom Davis, as well as the five best teams and five best players of the 20th century, you'll enjoy chapters on wrestling coaches Dan Gable and Gary Kurdelmeier, baseballers Mace Brown and Bob Pearl, track coach Francis Cretzmeyer, athletic directors Paul Belting and Bump Elliott, PA man Father Bob Holzhammer, half-century broadcaster Jim Zabel and far too many others to mention. In short, the book goes from Alden Knipe to Jim Zabel and that's about as 'A to Z' as you can get. 'Black and Gold Memories' is both informative and entertaining and I would highly recommend it to any Hawkeye fan young or old. (Not just incidentally, it would make a great Christmas gift.) Al Grady, UI Class of 1949, Voice of the Hawkeyes columnist and former Iowa City Press-Citizen sports editor.
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