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Ben Moffett Interviews with New Mexico Sports Figures collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-931-BC

Scope and Content

This collection consists of typed transcriptions of interviews by Moffett with New Mexico Sports figures. The interviews were not audio recorded and were transcribed verbatim during the interviews (real-time reporting). This interview project was funded through The Center for Regional Studies at the University of New Mexico. The collection also contains a short draft manuscript on New Mexico basketball figures titled “Acknowledgements: A Quintet of New Mexico Hoops Heroes,” and an unpublished biographical summary of Ben Moffett.

Dates

  • 2007-2014

Language of Materials

English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Copy Restrictions

Limited duplication of CSWR material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for compliance with all copyright, privacy, and libel laws. Permission is required for publication or distribution.

Biography / History

Ben Moffett was born at San Antonio, N.M., Socorro County in 1939. His family moved to Albuquerque where he attended Albuquerque High and became a sports editor for his high school paper, and almost simultaneously a sports stringer for the Albuquerque Journal. Moffett continued to be a sports writer through college at the University of New Mexico where he earned a BA in Journalism and an MA in Communication. For over four decades he wrote some twenty articles for New Mexico’s premier magazines: El Palacio and New Mexico Magazine. Moffett is currently writing a book on the history of basketball in New Mexico and the transcriptions of interviews in this collection are part of his research (See names of interviewees in Contents List below).

(Source: Ben Moffett, Writer, New Mexicophile, unpublished biographical summary included in collection folder)

Extent

1 Folder

Abstract

This collection consists of typed transcriptions of interviews by Moffett with New Mexico Sports figures.

Forms Available

Transcriptions available as paper printouts in folder at CSWR and as PDF images at UNM's New Mexico Digital Collections. See Contents List.

Related Material

James Hulsman Albuquerque High School Sports History Collection, Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico
Title
Finding aid of the Ben Moffett Interviews with New Mexico Sports Figures collection, 2007-2014
Status
Completed
Author
Samuel Sisneros
Date
© 2014
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is in English

Revision Statements

  • Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451