{"id":6768,"date":"2025-11-22T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2025-11-30T16:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:01:31","slug":"bagdad-high-schools-basketball-team-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/bagdad-high-schools-basketball-team-1941\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagdad High School\u2019s Basketball Team (1940)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bagdad High School’s Basketball Team (1940)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This Bagdad High School team was the runner-up in the 1940 Shelby County District Tournament.

From left to right, front row, are; “Pewee” Harper, Bobby Vanarsdale, Coach Jimmy Burnett, Eugene Lindsey, George N. Busey, and William Yount.

Back row, left to right, Manager Sam D. Weakley, Carlisle Barrickman, Earl Young Jr., Billy Vanarsdale, Jimmy McCarty, Bob Taylor, and Leland “Shag” Perkins.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Date<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Circa 1940<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Building<\/a>, <\/span>People<\/a>, <\/span>Schools & Education<\/a>, <\/span>Sports<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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  • Given to Jim Cleveland from Vance Burnett<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Portrait of the Past<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Jim Cleveland Photo Collection ID JBurnett-016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    This file may be downloaded for personal, research, or classroom use, free of charge.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Group photo of Bagdad High School’s Basketball Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[50,93,96,97],"post_folder":[77],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","tag-building","tag-people","tag-schools-education","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7928,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/7928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}