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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...
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An elaborate collection of the greatest Indiana high school basketball stories--newly updated!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 the Indiana High School Basketball Locker Room, now newly revised,...
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[2009]
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This is the most comprehensive book on Indiana's high school basketball history ever written with 1,200 school included. It moves from the beginnings of basketball in the Hoosier state to recent nationally recognized class basketball winners. Town histories, origins of team names, outstanding years and coaches, tournament performances, and Basketball Hall of Famers are in these 500-plus pages. This is a trip into the heart of the Hoosier basketball...
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[2005]
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This book is the story of Landon Turner, a 6-foot-10 junior who in 1981 went from a terrific physical specimen riding the bench to an offensive and defensive leader for Indiana Hoosier basketball. Four months after his team won the NCAA championship, Turner was paralyzed from the chest down when his car skidded off a curving Indiana highway. Relive Indiana's championship season--Turner's memories of his talented teammates, of a rollercoaster of a...
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2013.
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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,...
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2014.
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Indiana has long been known to be basketball crazy. The image of a basketball goal on every garage, barn or any other place you can put one (including the governor's residence) is based, as most legends are, on a ring of truth. Indiana has always been basketball crazy. Decades before "March Madness" became a national trademark, Hoosier Hysteria rippled through the entire state at tourney time. Other states can claim they are the "best" basketball...
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©2007.
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John Olsen writes of growing up in Loogootee, Indiana in the 1960s and 70s where basketball was the dominant source of entertainment during the winter months. John's story is about his experiences with Indiana basketball during his career at Loogootee under Coach Jack Butcher and his brief career under Coach Bobby Knight at Indiana University.
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[2014].
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"Bobby 'Slick' Leonard is Indiana basketball. No one better personifies its passion; no one better embodies its toughness. And no one takes more pride in being a native Hoosier. 'Heart of a Hoosier' celebrates the man as never before, tracking his rise from a shotgun shack in Depression-era Terra Haute to the Naismith Hall of Fame. With stunning, never-before-published footage and imagery, a cast that includes Jerry West, Reggie Miller, Richard Lugar,...
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