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One Small Town, One Crazy Coach: The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season

One Small Town, One Crazy Coach: The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season


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In the summer of 1962, the peripatetic and irrepressible Pete Gill was hired on a whim to coach basketball at tiny Ireland High School. There he would accomplish, against enormous odds, one of the great small-town feats in Indiana basketball history. With no starters taller than 5'10", few wins were predicted for the Spuds. Yet, after inflicting brutal preseason conditioning, employing a variety of unconventional motivational tactics, and overcoming fierce opposition, Gill molded the Spuds into a winning team that brought home the town's first and only sectional and regional titles. Relying on narrative strategies of creative nonfiction rather than strict historical rendering, Mike Roos brings to life a colorful and varied cast of characters and provides a compelling account of their struggles, wide-ranging emotions, and triumphs throughout the season.



About the Author :

Mike Roos is Professor of English at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. His website is http://www.mikeroos.com.



Review :
"One Small Town, One Crazy Coach is a piece of Indiana basketball history that reawakens memories of the glory days of high school teams in Southern Indiana. " - Chris May, Executive Director, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame "Fifty years ago the term 'Hoosier Hysteria' had a truly special meaning and a band of 'Spuds' solidified it. In short, Mike Roos's work about this unique team and special time is a must read! Any true 'Hoosier' will be taken to a better place! " - Jerry Reynolds , Director of Player Personnel and Broadcaster for NBA Sacramento Kings "For anyone who grew up in this "basketball crazy state"...A One Small Town, One Crazy Coach is a must read.A Mike Roos takes us A on a wonderful trip back to when Hoosier Basketball was the ONLY game in town... not just a story about High School Hoops... but an inside look at that glorious era when Indiana Boys basketball meant everything to an entire community." - Mike Blake, NBC Sports Commentator "Many of the schools Ireland High School played in 1962-1963 disappeared in the consolidation rush of the 1970s. Mike Roos...grew up in this world ("the golden age of Indiana high school basketball"), his father was the principal of Ireland High School during its trip to the promised land, and he knows basketball inside and out. I can't imagine anyone more qualified than Mr. Roos to bring Indiana high school basketball history to life--especially in this the 50th anniversary year. His is indeed an original--and valuable--work." - Don Daiker, Emeritus Professor of English, Miami University, Oxford


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253010285
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 454 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0253010284
  • Publisher Date: 17 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season
  • Width: 152 mm


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