Keith Eugene Booth (born October 9, 1974 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a former professional basketball player. Booth played his college basketball at the University of Maryland from 1994 to 1997.
Heavily recruited by Coach Gary Williams, he was the first player from Baltimore City in many years to play for Maryland. After the resignation of Williams' predecessor, Bob Wade, due to NCAA violations, a de facto boycott of the university was put in place by the high-school coaches in Baltimore. Because of this boycott, many star high-school players avoided Maryland as a choice to play their college ball. In becoming one of the members of Maryland's 1993 recruiting class, Booth broke the ice, and the school once again had access to talent-rich Baltimore City.
Booth was the Chicago Bulls' first-pick (28th overall) in the 1997 NBA Draft, and he played two seasons with the Bulls. Booth later returned to the Maryland campus and earned a bachelor's degree in criminology and criminal justice in 2003. After getting his degree, he worked at The Park School in Brooklandville, MD, where he was, among other things, the middle school baseball coach. In 2004, he returned to his alma mater to become an assistant under Coach Williams.
As an assistant coach at Maryland, Booth organizes recruiting as well as promoting and directing the Gary Williams Summer Basketball Camp each Summer in College Park. Booth is also known for his dapper dress on the sidelines of the Comcast Center.
Keith Booth is a cricket writer and scorer. He has been the principal scorer for Surrey County Cricket Club since 1995.
Like Geoffrey Boycott, Dickie Bird and Michael Parkinson, he comes from Barnsley, and like them he inherited a love of cricket. He has previously scored for Middlesex and MCC and was scorer for Test Match Special in the West Indies in 1994. His wife Jennifer is Surrey's reserve scorer.
He has written a history of cricket scoring, biographies of the cricketers Michael Atherton, Ted Pooley and George Lohmann, as well as a biography of the pioneering cricket and football administrator C. W. Alcock.
