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Author : Greg Guffey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253218186
This is a book for all fans of Indiana basketball.
Author : Greg Guffey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780253027726
“Captures what basketball meant to Hoosier players and fans in the ‘40s and ‘50s . . . [a] nostalgic journey through a simpler time when basketball was king.” —Steve Alford The years 1945–1959 marked the time when basketball truly became the sport of Indiana. High school basketball bound together communities across the state, and interest in the sport rose to a new level. The period saw the Milan/Muncie Central game, given new fame through the movie Hoosiers. It also saw the first televised game, the start of the career of Oscar Robertson (who played for Crispus Attucks), and friendly town rivalries to build the state’s biggest gymnasium. It was a time before the massive consolidations of the 1960s and ‘70s, with more than seven hundred teams involved in basketball tournaments. (There are some three hundred now.) In this book, Greg Guffey captures the flavor of the period—and showcases many of the best teams, players, and coaches. Includes photos
Author : Ric Schaekel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798564413329
The book explains the author's diverse experiences in playing and coaching high school basketball in small Indiana towns during the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Because of a connection he feels with the movie HOOSIERS, he compares situations in his playing and coaching career with episodes that occurred in the movie. He also shares his testimony as to how a medical difficulty which occurred six years ago to his wife has brought them closer together and closer to the Lord. If you enjoy the movie Hoosiers, comeback stories, love stories and stories of people over coming adversity, you should connect with this book.
Author : Jeff Washburn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781613214886
It is often said that while Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Massachusetts, the sport was raised and ultimately came of age in the high schools of Indiana, the state where politics, religion, and sweet corn fall in line behind the game played with the round orange ball. Tales from Indiana High School Basketball centers on those special people who have played the game—their stories, their passion, their drive for excellence, their laughs, and their tears. This is a book about Lebanon schoolboy hero Rick Mount, the first prep basketball player ever featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. The year was 1966, and Mount’s sweet jump shot had college recruiters flocking to the city 30 minutes north of Indianapolis. It’s about Gene Cato, the Indiana High School Athletic Association’s former commissioner whose father—his high school coach—would not put the young scoring phenom into a game until his team’s fans demanded it. It’s also about Marion’s "Purple Reign"—consecutive state championships in 1985, 1986, and 1987 when the Giants were the most important game on every opponent’s schedule. John Wooden, Bobby Plump, Steve Alford, Damon Bailey. It’s as easy for an Indiana high school basketball fan to roll the names off the tongue as it is to find the broadcast of a high school game on AM radio on any Friday night during an Indiana winter. Tales from Indiana High School Basketball is not so much about statistics and winning streaks as it is about the personalities and emotions of those who created a phenomenon that neither a New York City cab driver nor a Malibu-based surfer could understand. These high school kids became heroes and legends. Their stories will live on through generation after generation. Tales from Indiana High School Basketball is much more than a compilation of intriguing roundball stories. It is a way of life in the Hoosier State. Author Jeff Washburn, a Lafayette Journal and Courier sportswriter since 1972, has been watching Indiana high school basketball for 50 years—since his mother took him to see the great Oscar Robertson and Indianapolis Crispus Attucks when the writer was six months old. Like most Hoosiers, the game is in his blood and certainly in his heart, from which these tales flow.
Author : Randy Mills
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing Company
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1645305139
During the 1966-1967 Illinois high school basketball season, tiny Bluford High School, having just over a hundred students, reached the lowest ebb of its basketball playing history, winning only a single game. Two years later, in the 1968-1969 season, Bluford reeled off an unbelievable winning streak of twenty-five games, the second longest in a state where over seven hundred schools competed in sports. An Almost Perfect Season: A Father and Son and a Golden Age of Small-Town High School Basketball chronicles this fascinating story of unexpected success, telling it through the eyes of one of the starting players, Randy Mills. Embedded in the book is also the deeper story of how Mills's days of playing basketball for the Bluford team drew his distant father and him closer together for that short but happy time. Rich in long lost basketball action photos and strong in the invoking of the hot, crowded small-town gymnasiums of the 1960s, An Almost Perfect Season is a deeply moving personal history of an almost-forgotten golden age of high school basketball. About the Author An Indiana and Midwest historian and author, Randy Mills is a professor at Oakland City University in Oakland City, Indiana. He has authored over eighty professional articles and eight books on a number of historical subjects, including military history, labor history, and the Underground Railroad. He is a 2006 recipient of the George C. Roberts Award given by the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences for excellence in academic scholarship and a 2018 recipient of the Dorothy Riker Hoosier Historian Award given by the Indiana Historical Society. More recently, Mills has begun to explore his own personal journey as a baby boomer. Mills and his wife, Roxanne, live in Oakland City, Indiana.
Author : Steven Roseboro,Andy Grachuk
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1461124182
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Author : Dick Denny
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 999 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781613214824
Basketball talent in Indiana is probably no better than that found in any other state, yet the richness of tradition is unequalled anywhere else in the country. Author Dick Denny explores the Indiana basketball culture through this wonderful presentation of interviews and stories with IndianaÂ’s greatest male high school basketball stars. These legends include Carl Erskine, Monte Towe, and George McGinnis. Each former Indiana basketballer provides warm recounts of his athletic career, his contribution to the history of Indiana basketball, and how his experiences affected him later in life. This book will help you remember your favorite stars from the past, and introduce you to the ones of the present. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Robert Adams,Bob Adams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 073851991X
Indiana is the first state that comes to mind when one thinks of high school basketball. The game itself is an important part of the history of the state. From reports of the first game in 1894 to the heyday when Hoosier high school gyms were filled beyond capacity, "Hoosierism" and basketball have had a long and eventful relationship. Towns and cities, large and small alike, all across the state, have for generations united around their high school basketball teams. Hoosier High School Basketball chronicles the long and colorful history of the players, coaches, schools, and fans that have tied the game's history to Indiana. In a collection of over 200 vintage images, author Bob Adams details the achievements and contributions made by many of the sport's great players and coaches.
Author : Ed Snyder
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798823004961
Indiana loves basketball. It's in our blood, and it has always been one of the great traditions of our state. Never was the passion for high school basketball greater than during the period between the early 1950's and the early 1990's. "Their Times In Indiana" is a tribute to that period and a gift to the fans who supported Indiana high school basketball during those days. The stories that define the game during its golden era are never ending. This book was compiled so that over forty of the great players of the time could tell their stories in their own words. Through those stories, the reader can get to know these players while they share what it was like to grow up in Indiana, to fall in love with the game, and to star for their hometown team. The connection that fans had to the players and the game made Indiana high school basketball the greatest high school sport ever. "Their Times In Indiana" allows the reader to once again feel the passion that gripped the state every winter as thousands of Hoosiers packed high school gymnasiums to watch the games that made Indiana the place where basketball became great.
Author : Max Knight
Publisher : Clerisy Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1878208632
Author : Adolph H. Grundman
Publisher : A Bison Original
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015059165038
The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) has long symbolized the idealism of amateur athletic competition. For basketball especially, the AAU provided an opportunity for athletes to showcase their skills for the benefit of the team and the sport, not the bottom line. In The Golden Age of Amateur Basketball, Adolph H. Grundman recounts the history of the AAU National Tournament during its golden age, 1921 through 1968.Grundman analyzes the early tournaments, examining rule changes, key players, and dominant teams. He explores the rivalries between corporations for amateur dominance after 1935, the competition between the AAU and the National Collegiate Athletic Association for representation in Olympic basketball, the question of just how amateur "amateur" basketball really was, and the reasons for the demise of post-collegiate amateur basketball. The Golden Age of Amateur Basketball provides the first history of AAU basketball and identifies players and teams that made major contributions to basketball history.Adolph H. Grundman is a professor of history at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He is the editor of The Embattled Constitution: Convenient Symbol or Necessary Framework.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Physical education and training
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020623372
Author : Jeff Washburn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781613211137
It is often said that while Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Massachusetts, the sport was raised and ultimately came of age in the high schools of Indiana, the state where politics, religion, and sweet corn fall in line behind the game played with the round orange ball. Tales from Indiana High School Basketball, now newly revised, centers on those special people who have played the game—their stories, their passion, their drive for excellence, their laughs, and their tears. This is a book about Lebanon schoolboy hero Rick Mount, the first prep basketball player ever featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated; it’s about Gene Cato, the Indiana High School Athletic Association’s former commissioner whose father—his high school coach—would not put the young scoring phenomenon into a game until his team’s fans demanded it; it’s also about Marion’s “Purple Reign”—consecutive state championships in 1985, 1986, and 1987 when the Giants were the most important game on every opponent’s schedule. John Wooden, Bobby Plump, Steve Alford, Damon Bailey—it’s as easy for an Indiana high school basketball fan to roll the names off the tongue as it is to find the broadcast of a high school game on AM radio on any Friday night during an Indiana winter. Tales from Indiana High School Basketball is not so much about statistics and winning streaks as it is about the personalities and emotions of those who created a phenomenon that became a way of life in the Hoosier State.
Author : Bill May
Publisher : Clerisy Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1578601347
Remember Hoosiers? Truth be told, the passion and intensity of Indiana high school basketball goes far beyond anything Hollywood might conjure up. Tournament brackets are studied and memorized. Tickets are always sold out, pep rallies jammed. Then comes game time: sneakers tearing up hardwood floors, cheerleaders's pom-poms flashing at courtside, wave upon wave of cheers raining down from the rafters after every basket, steal, and no-look pass. This comprehensive, revised, and updated edition of Tourney Time includes the complete scores of every tournament game from 1911-2003. Year by year, school by school, the reader can see how each team advanced in pursuit of the ultimate Hoosier hoops dream. Tourney Time is a treasure for Indiana high school basketball fans, the ultimate wager-settling reference, and a catalog of athletic achievement.
Author : George McGinnis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Basketball
ISBN : 1597257338