This book is about the six-player game in Oklahoma, because it was the only basketball for girls at that time. This is a story about girls' basketball and its climb to respectability with other sports that were being played - before the transition to five-on-five. This is the story of the special situation of a man who wanted to coach boys but who was forced to coach a girls team. He finds the girls to be real competitors and students of the game. He loves it, and he never wants to coach a boys' athletic team again. This book became the basis for the 2006 movie, "Believe in Me," starring Jeffrey Donovan, Samantha Mathis and Bruce Dern.
Release Date: February 6, 2006
Release Time: 108 minutes
Director: Robert Collector
Cast:
Jeffrey Donovan as Clay Driscoll
Samantha Mathis as Jean Driscoll
Bruce Dern as Ellis Brawley
Bob Gunton as Hugh Moreland
Chris Ellis as Jim Stovall
Ryil Adamson as Myerson
Pamela Atherton as Ruth Selman
Kristin Brye as Pat Thompson
Mike Carlucci as Basketball TV Announcer (voice)
Paula Criss as Mrs. Blair
Camilla DeRamus as Mrs. Johnson
Jamie Dickerson as Liz Blair
Sean Dugan as The Heckler
Chris Ellis as Jim Stovall
Brandi Engel as Candy Brown
Chelsea Grear as Melba Johnson
Harold Keith lived his entire life in Oklahoma, a state that he greatly loved and which served as the setting for many of his books.
Perhaps his best known story, the historical novel "Rifles for Watie", was first released in 1957. It went on to win the 1958 John Newbery Medal and the 1964 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
In 1998, Harold Keith died of congestive heart failure, in Norman, Oklahoma.
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