Offered here is a vintage boys series book, Triple-Threat Trouble, A Chip Hilton Sports Series Story by Clair Bee, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1960, NY], 182 pages, first edition - title is 18 on a list of 18 on page prior to frontis and also 18 of 18 on the back cover - thus First Edition, 100100 price code on inside front flap, Red or Salmon tweed hardbound with title on spine, tight and clean no markings of any kind, brilliant creamy white pages, extremely minor bumps or rubs on corners, with frontispiece drawing, minor lean. Pictorial dust jacket has small tears at top and bottom flap hinge folds and spine head and heel with tiny rubs at folds and at spine head and heel; the bottom DJ flap fold edges have very small light stains - do NOT go onto pages or covers - very light musty smell [from the attic where I got these from].

My first teaching and coaching job right out of college in 1975 was at Roscoe Central School, Roscoe, NY, which was a few miles from where Clair Bee lived as an elderly gentelmen. He came to at least two of our annual sports banquets as an invited guest - what a pleasure it was for a 22 year old new coach to talk sports with him!

"Clair F. Bee was enshrined in the Basketball HOF 1968; In the 1930s and 1940s, Clair Bee was synonymous with the game of basketball. A New York icon, Bee helped to make college basketball in the Big Apple a major event. Coaching eighteen seasons at Long Island University, Bee led LIU to NIT championships in 1939 and 1941. Under Bee, LIU became a national power, winning 43 consecutive games, including undefeated seasons in 1935-36 and 1938-39. Postseason, LIU played annual tournaments with homegrown talent. And, when the home team competed at Madison Square Garden, the fans went wild. Called the game's greatest defensive strategist by his contemporaries, Bee developed the 1-3-1 zone defense and was very influential in the implementation of the 3-second rule. Bee was a frequent contributor to a variety of sporting publications and authored the critically acclaimed Chip Hilton's Sports Stories for Young People." quoted from the basketball HOF web site.