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Chip Hilton
William "Chip" Hilton is the central character in a series of 24 sports novels for adolescent boys written by the successful college basketball coach and 1968 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Clair Bee (1896–1983). In addition to Bee's authorship of the Chip Hilton series, he was also the author of several basketball and coaching technique books. The Chip Hilton series was published between 1948 and 1966 by Grosset & Dunlap, with Bee's last manuscript, ''Fiery Fullback,'' published in 2002. The series hero excels in football, basketball and baseball, and is often placed in the position of persuading his less-than-perfect teammates to play his way and share his values—with winning championships being the result. Stories have two or three subplots, sometimes unrelated to sports, and one title is distinguished for tackling racism. The Chip Hilton books sold 2.2 million copies,〔(DeFrank, Thomas M.. "Sporting Legend Returns". ''Daily News'', 4 August 2002 ). Retrieved 24 October 2008.〕 and, in 1997, the NCAA founded the Chip Hilton Player of the Year Award. In the late 1990s, the series was re-issued by a Nashville religious book publishing house with the co-operation of Bee's children. The re-issue caused a furor among fans and purists with its politically correct update and its down-home Christian evangelical flavor.〔 The original series is highly collectible, with some titles being worth hundreds of dollars. ==Characterization== Unlike other Grosset & Dunlap boys series books of the period, the Chip Hilton stories are distinguished by a greater degree of psychological interest. The staidly perfect Chip serves as a foil for his much more human fellow characters. Chip excels at all major sports, except hockey and soccer. Like most series books heroes, he doesn't have a girlfriend, and spends much of his time with his buddies: "Biggie," "Soapy," "Speed" and "Fireball." He does occasionally turn his eye on Mitzi, the head cashier at his employer's drug store, and once daydreamed about her while looking in a storefront at a display for dancing lessons. Chip was based on Seton Hall basketball player Bob Davies, and Chip's coach, Henry "The Rock" Rockwell, was based on Bee himself.〔Axe, John. ''All About Collecting Boys' Series Books.'' Hobby House Press, Inc., 2002.〕
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