(Lexington Herald-Leader photo by E. Martin Jessee)

“Sports lovers will devour this story of Coach Jock Sutherland, but even if you’ve never watched a basketball game or cared about a score, you will cherish this book.  JOCK is a moving narrative of one man’s dream, but page by page, one riveting moment after another, it unfolds as the story of America.” – Connie Schultz, Pulitzer-winning columnist and author of New York Times bestseller The Daughters of Erietown.

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Sample chapters

Introduction: True Stories (Mostly)

Chapter 1: So Close Yet So Miserable

Chapter 11: Jock Learns You Can Go Home Again

Chapter 12: If It’s Broke, Fix It

Jock’s first team at Gallatin County High, 1955-56

“Sutherland had a gift for coaching, but he had an even greater one for becoming to generations of Kentucky boys the father figure that they, like Sutherland himself, too often lacked. Whether in small-town, tobacco-farming backwaters with high schools too small to have more than one sport–it had to be basketball–or the state’s largest cities and biggest high schools, Jock, with his leathery old heart, showed boys what it is to care about another person and how to go about doing this not just because the person can shoot or rebound a basketball but because the person needed someone to love him.”– Steve Love, co-author of “Wheels of Fortune” and award-winning columnist.