MURFREESBORO — The
next edition of the ‘MTSU On the Record’ radio program will examine how the
racial barrier in Southeastern Conference sports was broken.
Host Gina Logue’s interview with writer Andrew Maraniss will
air from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, and from 8 to 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 8,
on WMOT-FM (89.5 and www.wmot.org).
Maraniss is the author of “Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and
the Collision of Race and Sports in the South.” The biography of former
Vanderbilt University basketball star Perry Wallace chronicles Wallace’s 1967-1970
breakthrough as the first varsity African-American scholarship athlete in any
sport in the SEC.
Maraniss will speak at MTSU at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in the
State Farm Lecture Hall in the Business and Aerospace Building. The event,
which is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, is free and open to the
public. A searchable campus parking map is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParking2015-16.
“(Wallace) told me that he would look at the Vanderbilt
schedule before each season and look at the road trips he was about to take
with the deepest sense of dread,” said Maraniss. “In his mind, he would imagine
…the worst thing that could happen on one of these trips. In his mind, it was
to get shot and killed out on the court during a game or around town before or
after a game.”
The author was a recipient of the Fred Russell-Grantland
Rice sportswriting scholarship at Vanderbilt. After graduating in 1992, he
worked for five years as his alma mater’s associate director of media relations
for athletics.
Following a stint as media relations manager for the Tampa
Bay Devil Rays of Major League Baseball in 1998, he returned to Nashville to
join the public relations firm of McNeely Pigott & Fox, where he still
works today.
To hear previous “MTSU On the Record” programs, go to http://www.mtsunews.com and click the
“more” link under “Audio Clips.”
For more information, contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or
WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.
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