Knoxville: A City Born of Blood & Flames: Slavery, Civil War Rips Apart Brothers, Families (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781536815221)

Ken Mink lives in Knoxville, Tn., semi-retired after a 48-year career as a newspaper and magazine journalist. But he is perhaps best known as the World's Oldest College And Pro Basketball Player. He became an international celebrity in 2008-2009 when he set college basketball on its ear by returning to college and actually playing on a college team 52 years after he last sat foot on a college court. A Kentucky native, he retired from active newspaper work in 1998 but continued to serve as a journalist, editing an online travel magazine, The Travelling Adventurer (www.travellingadventurer.com), and writing freelance articles for newspapers and magazines. Other daily newspapers he worked for included the Lexington, Ky., Herald-Leader, the Dayton, Ohio, Daily News, the Bristol, Va., Herald-Courier, Kingsport, Tn., Times-News, Harrisonburg, Va., Daily News-Record and the Hopkinsville, Ky., New Era. He is the author of 20 books, including So, You Want Your Kid to be a Sports Superstar, Nightmare on Black Mountain, Men Who Pee on Trees, A Tear for Sarah, Murder on the Appalachian Trail, Iron Men of Sewanee, The Rag Tag Gang, Serpent on the Cross and Hoops Dreamer: The Ken Mink Story.