CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: The Extremes of Clair Bee
The Early Years: 1896–1931
CHAPTER 2: Grafton and Valley Falls
CHAPTER 3: Dick Dalton Goes to College
CHAPTER 4: Professor Bee and Coach Bee at Rider
Bee at Long Island University:1931–52
CHAPTER 5: Making the Blackbirds Proud
CHAPTER 6: Defying Hitler; Losing to Luisetti
CHAPTER 7: The Innovator and the NIT Championships
CHAPTER 8: Jim Crow and the Spit Bucket
CHAPTER 9: Thanksgiving 1939
CHAPTER 10: World War II, Postwar Boom, and the Creation of Chip
CHAPTER 11: Chip Hilton and Race Relations
CHAPTER 12: Sixty-Four Manhattans and a Few Wives
CHAPTER 13: The Fix and the Fixers
CHAPTER 14: Sherman White and Coach Bee
CHAPTER 15: Journalist Bee Confronts the Scandal
CHAPTER 16: Bee the Psalm Singer
CHAPTER 17 Chip and the Scandal
Life after Long Island University:1952–83
CHAPTER 18: The Bullets and Beyond
CHAPTER 19: Bobby Knight, Another Championship, and Blindness
Epilogue
APPENDIX
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX