A look back at what once was the heart and soul of sports in the beautiful, but rugged mountains of Kentucky is what Legacies of Kentucky Mountain Basketball does with photographs from today. It was a time when many small communities and towns were put on the map by the play of their local high school basketball team. Some communities were not even towns themselves, but their teams played as good as or better than any from the state. A time when folks would crowd into gyms just to watch their favorite team play and those that couldn"t make it inside would stay outside with someone calling the score out the front door to the crowd gathered fighting the elements (sometimes with the help of a little anti-freeze). Legacies of Kentucky Mountain Basketball ... is about the golden era of high school basketball in Kentucky (the mid-1950s), high school basketball that was as close to the original game as we will ever see again ... good, fundamental basketball ... set shots, pick and roll,...