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Tony Barnhart Explains His Book - The 19 of Greene · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Tony Barnhardt mister cfb on X also columnist for TMG College Sports. Arthur and
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  Moore got his book. We're going to tell you about, of course,
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  talk a little college sports. Tony. Welcome in, sir. How are
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  you, Jake. I'm great, good to be with you. Hey,
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  I appreciate you taking some time first before we get off into what's going on
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  in the world of college football. Tell everybody about your book, how they
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  can get it, and you know what's going on as you continue to you
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  know, punch out great, great material out there. Well, thank you.
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  The title of the book is The nineteen of Green and it's the story
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  about the nineteen seventy Green County Tigers, the first integrated football team in the
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  history of Green County, Georgia. It's located halfway between Atlanta and Augusta off
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  of twenty if you're going east, and those the schools were merged. Finally
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  the nineteenth fall of nineteen seventy, the courts ruled at the schools, the
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  Black school and the white school must merge and be completely integrated. And those
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  of us who played foot ball thought that was great. He said, man,
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  we'll have merging two schools. We have sixty guys, we'll do great
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  well. When spring practice was over, we had nineteen guys, and that's
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  what the nineteen of Green stands for. But the book tells the story and
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  how all of us who came from different backgrounds. I never had an African
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  American friend until then, and what it was like to making the transition.
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  We won seven out of our last eight games to make the playoffs. But
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  the story of the book is about the fact that fifty three after years after
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  we played our last game together, we drew a big crowd at Green County
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  on December ninth for a team reunion and a book signing, and it was
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  special. It's about friendship that has lasted for half a century, and football
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  is just the vehicles that we used. Tony Bonheart on your