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Champion of the Barrio: The Legacy of Coach Buryl Baty

Champion of the Barrio: The Legacy of Coach Buryl Baty

Baty, Gaines

Paperback

Series: Texas Sports Heroes

AthletesFootballRegional: Southwest

ISBN10: 1682833429
ISBN13: 9781682833421
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: Sep 24 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Buryl Baty (1924-1954) was a winning athlete, coach, builder of men, and early pioneer in the fight against bigotry. In 1950, Baty became head football coach at Bowie High School in El Paso and quickly inspired his athletes, all Mexican Americans from the Segundo Barrio, with his winning ways and his personal stand against the era's extreme, deep-seated prejudice--to which they were subjected.

However, just as the team was in a position to win a third district title in 1954, they were jolted by an unthinkable tragedy that turned their world upside down. Later, as mature adults, these players realized that Coach Baty had helped mold them into honorable and successful men, and forty-four years after the coach's death, they dedicated their high school stadium in his name. In 2013, Baty was inducted posthumously into the El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame.

In this new paperback edition of the classic memoir, R. Gaines Baty also describes his own journey to get to know his father. Coach Baty's life story is portrayed from the perspectives of nearly one hundred individuals who knew him, in addition to many documented facts and news reports.

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