My Name Is Mister Ryan (The Greatness in People Series) Unknown - 1994

Poplar Bluff, Missouri, U.S.A.: Four Walls Publishing, 1994. First Printing of a Limited Edition copy #231/990. Complete number line at copyright page. Signed by author with dedication [to Tommy Lynch] at fep, dated 2-15-1994. Illustrated with one 32-page section of B&W photographs. Dust jacket in new archival mylar, clean, crisp, colors bright, minimal handling wear. Black leatherette boards, copper lettering, fine. Pages [451] clean, unmarked, binding tight, slight lean to spine. Publisher's mail out sales brochure [addressed to Thomas Lynch] laid in. Story of the high school basketball coach, Arnold Ryan, in the small town of Puxico, Missouri whose teams would bring change to the American game of basketball. Ryan's 1951 Puxico Indians were one of the most powerful and provocative teams ever to play the game. He and his players transcended sports to embrace the higher instinct in us all, a source of pride for a community and confirmation of its rural values [St. Louis Post-Dispatch and… Leer más