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Today basketball is played “above the rim” by athletes of all backgrounds and colors. But 50 years ago it was a floor-bound game, and the opportunities it offered for African-Americans were severely limited.
A key turning point was 1963, when the Loyola Ramblers of Chicago took the NCAA men’s basketball title from Cincinnati, the two-time defending champions. It was one of Chicago’s most memorable sports victories, but Ramblers reveals it was also a game for the history books because of the transgressive lineups fielded by both teams.
Ramblers is an entertaining, detail-rich look back at the unlikely circumstances that led to Loyola’s historic championship and the stories of two Loyola opponents Cincinnati and Mississippi State. Michael Lenehan’s narrative masterfully intertwines these stories in dramatic fashion, culminating with the tournament’s final game, a come-from-behind overtime upset that featured two buzzer-beating shots.
While on the surface this is a book about basketball, it goes deeper to illuminate how sport in America both typifies and drives change in the broader culture. The stark social realities of the times are brought vividly to life in Lenehan’s telling, illustrating the challenges faced in teams’ efforts simply to play their game against the worthiest opponents.
Read Ramblers Loyola Chicago 1963 — The Team that Changed the Color of College Basketball Michael Lenehan 9781572841406 Books
"Author Michael Lenehan brings to life a much under reported story about a team of courageous young athletes and a never say die coach. I do not want to in anyway give away the story for those who will read this book and find out how powerful the story is. However, it is often said that the game in 1966 when Texas Western upset highly favored Kentucky in the finals of the NCAA tournament is the game that made the NCAA tournament the exciting sports event it is today. Readers of this book might want to change their minds when they find out what happened three years earlier when Loyola University of Chicago played Mississippi State in the NCAA tourney at Lansing, MI and then defeated the University of Cincinnati in the NCAA finals.
The book is not only about basketball but about our culture and how certain events changed the direction of how people of different color began to get along better. Growing up in Indiana, basketball country, I was well aware of the story told in this book and urge anyone who likes sports and wants to learn more about how our country developed to read it. You will be glad you did.
Norman Jones, Ed. D. author of Growing Up in Indiana: the Culture & Hoosier Hysteria Revisited."
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Ramblers Loyola Chicago 1963 — The Team that Changed the Color of College Basketball Michael Lenehan 9781572841406 Books Reviews
- This book, by an author I have never heard of, is one of the best I have ever read in the sports genre. It tells the story of the 1963 NCAA Champs as a cog in the complex society that had been created in the U.S. after WWII. There is a lot of basketball history and the book is very well written and almost as important to me, well edited. I grew up in the era so I may have a greater interest in the subject matter but if you love basketball and are interested in the beginnings of the current college game you should snap this up. I can't praise it too highly.
Just a note to add how great it is to see Jerry Harkness watching his alma mater trying to repeat at the 2018 NCAA Championship. - Chicago has been the focus of some of the most salient intersections of basketball and social commentary, from the best documentary (in my opinion) ever filmed, "Hoop Dreams," to Michael Jordan's influence on American culture and business, to the founding of the Harlem Globetrotters, to the first interracial basketball tournament ever held (see Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's documentary "On The Shoulders of Giants"), to former Hawaii state high school champion Barack Obama's rise from Chicago community organizer to President of the United States. The largely unknown story of Loyola's 1963 national championship fits comfortably into that pantheon, and the skillful literary treatment by Chicagoan Mike Lenehan, "Ramblers Loyola Chicago 1963, The Team that Changed the Color of College Basketball" makes this an eminently readable and personal story.
As a Loyola graduate and avid basketball fan, I thought I knew just about everything about the 1963 championship, but Lenehan's meticulously-researched book gave me new insights and memorable images on almost every page. Writing a definitive historical archive of a seminal event is difficult enough, but Lenehan's effective infusion of highly personal stories from witnesses and participants is thoroughly compelling.
There are anecdotes told in this book that literally had me laughing and crying within two paragraphs. Reading Ron Miller's 50-year old recollection of meeting Vic Rouse for the first time is probably something I'll remember for 50 years (if I'm lucky to live that much longer). The images of Coach George Ireland pitching the parents of recruits at the kitchen table is told in a way that gives an indelible picture and insights into an enigmatic man. The artfully-described tensions between team members in the crucible of a pervasive climate of racism, and their reactions, is a timeless and human story that really has less to do with basketball than the human condition.
Although I'm somewhat invested after having attended Loyola and meeting many of the individuals in this book, I still can't recommend this book more highly. It renews my pride in my alma mater, my pride in my city, my pride in my country, and my pride in my fellow man for our ability to take steps to move beyond the simple classifications that limit us. It's a great book for hoop fans and for fans of the human race. - When I saw this book I had to read it. Growing up in the Chicago area, Loyola was my favorite team. My dad used to take me to double headers at the Chicago Stadium, and, at age 67, I can still name the starting five for the championship team, and go one or two into the bench. I even played pickup basketball with several of the Ramblers of that era.
This book didn't let me down. It described the excitement of the ''62-'63 season in deep context, going into the background of the team members, the ins and outs of New York City playground basketball, recruiting and the stories of several of the great teams of the era.
Perhaps the most important context, and the heart of the book, is the emergence of African American players, and the resistance among coaches, school administrators and politicians, to integrating college teams. How quickly we forget.
This is a great book, whether yoiu're an armchair sociologist or a basketball fan. - Exceptionally written and researched book. Far more than a sports book, the author recreates a culture changing period of our history when two basketball teams, Loyola and Mississippi State played a ball game that impacted racism in sports and far beyond. When Loyola won the championship, I was 11, living near Chicago. I didn’t fully understand what the big deal was. I do now thanks to this special book, which is on the level of Breaks of the Game, The Boys of Summer, A Season on the Brinkand other great sports books that are about the depth and power of life. Amazing book, Michael!
- Author Michael Lenehan brings to life a much under reported story about a team of courageous young athletes and a never say die coach. I do not want to in anyway give away the story for those who will read this book and find out how powerful the story is. However, it is often said that the game in 1966 when Texas Western upset highly favored Kentucky in the finals of the NCAA tournament is the game that made the NCAA tournament the exciting sports event it is today. Readers of this book might want to change their minds when they find out what happened three years earlier when Loyola University of Chicago played Mississippi State in the NCAA tourney at Lansing, MI and then defeated the University of Cincinnati in the NCAA finals.
The book is not only about basketball but about our culture and how certain events changed the direction of how people of different color began to get along better. Growing up in Indiana, basketball country, I was well aware of the story told in this book and urge anyone who likes sports and wants to learn more about how our country developed to read it. You will be glad you did.
Norman Jones, Ed. D. author of Growing Up in Indiana the Culture & Hoosier Hysteria Revisited.
