Former UK Coach Joe B. Hall will be signing commemorative Maker’s Mark bottles on Friday morning at Keeneland.
Here’s the news release from Keeneland:
Coach Joe B Hall will be joined by Maker’s Mark president, Bill Samuels Jr, and Keeneland Race Track president, Nick Nicholson, in signing the special bottles that honors Coach Hall and his biggest fan, his late wife Katharine, who died of cancer last year.
Friday, April 11 starting at 6:30 AM
Trackside of the Keeneland Race Track, Lexington, Kentucky
The unique partnership between Keeneland Race Track, University of Kentucky and Maker’s Mark Distillery will have raised over $3 million in three years for important cancer research in Kentucky.
This is the 30th Anniversary of Coach Hall’s 1978 NCAA Championship, and when Hall was also named college basketball’s Coach of the Year.
Made of blue glass and dipped in “Kentucky Blue” wax, the 18,000 numbered limited edition bottles, that were sold only in Kentucky, were sold out within hours on Friday April 4, 2008.
The signing will be for first 1300 people in line with each person limited to two (2) bottles and only this year’s 2008 bottle will be signed (no other bottles or memorabilia will be allowed).
Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald- Leader has covered Kentucky basketball since the 1981-82 season. That time includes five coaches, five Final Fours, four athletic directors, two interim athletic directors and many memories. Before coming to Lexington, Tipton worked eight years for the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch. He covered Marshall’s basketball team for two seasons before coming to the Herald-Leader.
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