Powerful Life Lessons Radio Interview
In a nutshell, the author, Gaines Baty, is a Dallas-area CEO and former all-conference football player at Texas Tech. Several years ago, he began doing some research to write a book about the dad he never really got an opportunity to know — All-American Texas A&M QB Buryl Baty. Long story short, Baty was an […]
Review by Lone Star Literary Life
Champion of the Barrio: The Legacy of Coach Buryl Baty by R. Gaines Baty is the latest biography in Texas A&M University Press’s Spirit of Sport: A Series of Books Focusing on Sport in Modern Society. The author, older son of Coach Baty, undertook this project as a way to learn more about the father he hardly remembered, to see the man […]
Dallas Morning News
First-time author tells story of father and former Aggie he barely got to know. Buryl Baty was a star at Paris High and at Texas A&M, not to mention a hero at El Paso Bowie. But he was mostly a ghost to his oldest son, who was 4 when his father died. Gaines Baty’s memories […]
ABC-7 KVIA-TV Live Interview
ABC-7 KVIA-TV in El Paso hosts Champion of the Barrio author Gaines Baty. Watch the May 21, 2015 live interview here.
El Paso Times – Special to the Times
Bowie’s Coach Baty – son writes of how his father turned players into champs in more ways than one. The book is billed as a true “story of triumph over hardship, over discrimination, over tragedy and over one’s self”…”Buryl Baty was a pioneer, a champion for equality,” Baty writes about his father. By Ramón Rentería […]
KZNE Sports Radio 1150-AM The Zone
Champion of the Barrio: The Legacy of Coach Buryl Baty book author Gaines Baty and Bryan Broadcasting’s assistant sports director Zach Taylor discuss the tragic yet inspiring life story of 1940’s Aggie all-star quarterback, Detroit Lions draft pick, and 1950-1954 El Paso Bowie High School head football coach Buryl Baty. Baty played an important role in Texas […]
Lake Highlands Advocate
Gaines Baty releases inspirational story of his father, Champion of the Barrio. Gaines Baty says he was stunned to come across mention of his late father, Buryl Baty, while reading Jim Dent’s football best-seller, Twelve Mighty Orphans. Buryl died tragically when Gaines was 4, after becoming a legendary quarterback at Texas A&M and respected coach […]
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Football coach fought discrimination…Gaines Baty has written an interesting book about his father’s impressive and principled success as a high school football coach in El Paso in the early 1950s… …The school, which had enjoyed little success in football before Baty came along, won two district championships and was on its way to a third […]
The Eagle – My Aggie Nation
Gaines Baty explores the life of his legendary Aggie father in ‘Champion of the Barrio’. Buryl Baty’s playing career at Texas A&M is best remembered for a touchdown pass he threw against Texas in 1948. The late score resulted in a tie, but it was the first time A&M had ever played Texas in Austin […]
El Paso, Inc. Sports
Book about legendary Bowie coach Baty is now available. The long-awaited book by the son of Buryl Baty, the beloved Bowie High School football coach who died in a tragic accident in 1954, is now available for purchase. It was written by his son, R. Gaines Baty, and is titled “Champion of the Barrio: The […]