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Outside Shot
Big Dreams, Hard Times, and One County's Quest for Basketball Greatness
A New York Times Editor’s Choice Book
In Outside Shot, Keith O’Brien chronicled one year in Kentucky high school basketball with all access to one of the state’s rural powerhouse teams: the Scott County Cardinals. For eight months, he lived at the school, rode the team bus, attended practice, sat on the bench, and gathered hundreds of hours of interviews and dialogue. He then spun it all into a riveting narrative about one town, one season, and one dream—the quest to be a basketball star, in the place where that matters most: Kentucky.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT
Outside Shot
Fresh and even lyrical… Outside Shot unmistakably triumphs, with the reader rooting hard for the Cardinals — and delighted that O’Brien has brought his considerable skills to telling their story.
The New York Times
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