Nelson: Pink Palace’s Tiger hoops exhibit is Memphis in a nutshell
During a visit to the Pink Palace on Friday, March 6, Rosalie Gibson, whose mother works at the museum, compares her hand to that of a University of Memphis basketball player at a new exhibit on the history of the U of M men's and women's basketball programs. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
A wall of Tigers' T-shirts over the years hangs in the Pink Palace Museum's new exhibit. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Tammy Braithwaite (right) and Jestein Gibson hang a circa-1912 pennant on the wall on Friday, March 6, at the Pink Palace Museum's new exhibit on the history of the University of Memphis men's and women's basketball programs. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
A Conference USA championship ring sits in front of a Derrick Rose jersey at the Pink Palace exhibit. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Pink Palace workers line up information panels while setting up the museum's new exhibit on the history of the University of Memphis men's and women's basketball programs on Friday, March 6. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
A signed pair of William Bedford's shoes are on display at the Pink Palace Museum's new exhibit on the history of the University of Memphis men's and women's basketball programs. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Bobbleheads of University of Memphis coaches Penny Hardaway, Tubby Smith, Josh Pastner and John Calipari are on display at the Pink Palace's new exhibit on the history of the university's men's and women's basketball programs. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Michael Nelson
Michael Nelson is contributing editor and columnist for The Daily Memphian, the political analyst for WMC-TV, and the Fulmer professor of political science at Rhodes College. His latest books are “Clinton's Elections: 1992, 1996, and the Birth of a New Era of Governance" and “The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2018.”
In the University of Memphis Tigers' basketball museum exhibition, history is marked as B.F. and A.F. The F is for Finch.
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