Hoosiers, Third Edition

Phillip M. Hoose

Description

Named by The New York Times as "a knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America" and containing a new foreword by legendary player Bob Plump, this is a book every basketball lover should own. The best of Phillip Hoose's classic writings are included here with a fresh look on Indiana's favorite and most beloved sport. A new edition of a well-known Indiana classic, Hoosiers profiles some of the world's most famous basketball players and coaches—Larry Bird, Bobby Plump, Damon Bailey, Steve Alford, Stephanie White, and Bob Knight among them—along with Indiana towns, schools, and programs. The ultimate book for the diehard fan, Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana explores Hoosier hysteria in all its glory.

Foreword by Bob Plump
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Farm Boys—How Indiana Became the Basketball State
2. Milan High School—The Hoosier Dream
3. Indianapolis Crispus Attucks High—The Black and White of Hoosier Hysteria
4. Anderson, Indiana—Basketball Town
5. The Calumet Region—Hoops in the Other Indiana
6. Judi Warren and the Warsaw Tigers—Into the Front Court
7. Fathers and Sons—The Mounts of Lebanon, Indiana
8. Meadowood Park
9. Larry Bird—The Guy Down the Road
10. The Education of Stephanie White
11. Coaches—From the Lady Lions to Bob Knight
12. Steve Alford—All In
13. An Interview with Damon Bailey
14. Four Class Basketball—Death or Salvation of Hoosier Hysteria?
15. Perspective—Four Things that Remain Distinctive about Indiana's Game
16. Passages—What Has Become of Selected, People, Places and Gyms
Index

Sujets

• Sport
• Sports collectifs
• Basketball
• Basket-ball
• Indiana
• Larry Bird
• Netball
• History
• Recreation
• Crispus Attucks
• Damon Bailey
• Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame
• Baloncesto
• Sports

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 29 août 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253021687
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

PRAISE FOR Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana, 2nd edition
Will appeal not only to basketball fanatics but to mainstream readers as well. It is a knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America.
- New York Times
The finest book ever written on Indiana Basketball.
-Bob Collins, Sports Editor, Indianapolis Star
Hoose develops a narrative that transcends sports and operates as cultural history Warm, graceful, full of the happy savor of letter jackets and cheerleaders sweaters includes the great personalities of the game
-Larry Bird, Rick Mount and the maniacal Bobby Knight-yet keeps the locus local, social and intimate. - Boston Globe
To say this little gem is a sports book is to say The Sun Also Rises is about bullfighting. -Scripps Howard News Service
Terrific reading. - Sporting News
The best book ever written on Indiana high school basketball. Hoose not only writes well, but his vignettes and anecdotes are fascinating. His chapter on Larry Bird is probably the best short piece ever written about him. -Author Lee Daniel Levine, in Bird: The Making of An American Sports Legend One of ten recommended sports books for kids.
- The Kids World Almanac of Records and Facts
A thoughtful, elegantly crafted and shrewdly entertaining examination of a fascinating American subculture An amusing, vital and intelligent book about a slice of America too easily ignored. - Kirkus Reviews
This superbly written piece of sports journalism will alternately tickle the funnybone and pluck at the heartstrings of basketball fans everywhere.
- Booklist
Phillip Hoose examines the phenomenon of Indiana basketball with wit and whimsy. - U.S. News and World Report
Of all the books written about high school basketball in Indiana, this is the one that has lasted and will last, for good reason: None better explains the whys and wherefores, the context, culture, and fascinating history behind the hysteria. Read it to better understand Indiana as you would read Friday Night Lights to better understand Texas, or The City Game to better understand Harlem. -Alexander Wolff, Sports Illustrated , Senior Writer
PRAISE FOR Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana, 1st Edition
A knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America.
- New York Times
A truly superior book It s a steal. - Indianapolis News
An unusually perceptive and entertaining study of heartland America.
- Chicago Tribune
Transcends sports and operates as cultural history Warm, graceful, full of the happy savor of letter jackets and cheerleaders sweaters.
- Boston Globe
Indiana history as viewed through a basketball net An absorbing historical narrative, woven around modern Indiana history, using basketball as the thread. -the Indiana Historical Society
If you re a Hoosier Hysteric, call time out and go buy it; if you re not, reading Hoosiers will be like studying the strange ways of a cult that worships gym shoes. - Playboy
OTHER BOOKS BY PHILLIP HOOSE
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Perfect, Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
We Were There Too!: Young People in U.S. History
Hey, Little Ant (With Hannah Hoose)
It s Our World, Too! Young People Who are Making a Difference (and How They re Doing it)
Necessities: Racial Barriers in American Sports
Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana (first and second editions)
Building an Ark: Tools for the Preservation of Natural Diversity through Land Protection
HOOSIERS
HOOSIERS
THE FABULOUS BASKETBALL LIFE OF INDIANA
Third Edition
PHILLIP M. HOOSE
FOREWORD BY BOB PLUMP
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington Indianapolis
This book is a publication of
Indiana University Press
Office of Scholarly Publishing
Herman B Wells Library 350
1320 East 10th Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA
iupress.indiana.edu
2016 by Phillip M. Hoose
All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z 39.48-1992.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
Title: Hoosiers : the fabulous basketball life of Indiana / Phillip M. Hoose ; foreword by Bobby Plump.
Description: Third edition. | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016002163 | ISBN 9780253021625 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253021687 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH : Basketball-Indiana-History. | Basketball players-Indiana-Biography.
Classification: LCC GV 885.72.I6 H 66 2016 | DDC 796.32309772-dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016002163
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CONTENTS
Foreword by Bob Plump
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Farm Boys: How Indiana Became the Basketball State
2 Milan High School: The Hoosier Dream
3 Indianapolis Crispus Attucks High: The Black and White of Hoosier Hysteria
4 Anderson, Indiana: Basketball Town
5 The Calumet Region: Hoops in the Other Indiana
6 Judi Warren and the Warsaw Tigers: Into the Front Court
7 Fathers and Sons: The Mounts of Lebanon, Indiana
8 Meadowood Park: Speedway, Indiana
9 Larry Bird: The Guy Down the Road
10 The Education of Stephanie White
11 Coaches: From the Lady Lions to Bob Knight
12 Steve Alford: All In
13 An Interview with Damon Bailey
14 Four-Class Basketball: Death or Salvation of Hoosier Hysteria?
15 Perspective: Four Things that Remain Distinctive about Indiana s Game
16 Passages: What Has Become of Selected People, Places, and Buildings of Hoosier Hysteria
Index
FOREWORD
Bob Plump
I first talked with Phil Hoose about thirty years ago. He had an assignment for Sports Illustrated that later became a book. It was a memorable conversation. Of course, we discussed the 1954 Milan High School Basketball State Tournament win. I was fortunate enough to be a part of that memorable game when my rural high school defeated a much bigger school whose gym could have seated seven times the population of our entire town.
Phil wanted to know what it was like to still have people be so interested in a guy who made a basketball shot in a high school game played over 60 years ago. I told him that it still baffles me, but it is humbling that people from all over are still fascinated by the shot, the game, and me!
To reach the state final game we played and defeated Indianapolis Crispus Attucks High, one of two racially segregated high schools in Indiana at that time. It was an all-black team versus an all-white team, played in the state s biggest city. Phil wanted to know what it was like for us as a team and if we had played against black players before. Yes, we had previously played against black players. As far as it being an issue for our team, it just wasn t. Our coach, Marvin Wood never even mentioned it. He DID mention that they were good though! As a result, it was just like any other important game for us. The team s focus was on winning the ballgame not that the opponents were black.
Through painstaking research, skilled interviewing and fine writing, Phil Hoose has written the go-to book about Indiana basketball. Hoosiers is a great read for anyone but especially for those of us who love the sport of basketball. As Sports Illustrated s Alex Wolff put it in 2003, Of all the books written about high school basketball in Indiana, this is the one that has lasted and will last, for good reason: None better explains the whys and wherefores, the context, culture, and fascinating history behind the hysteria.
Through great stories and profiles of figures like Homer Stonebraker, Fuzzy Vandivier, John Wooden, Oscar Robertson, Jimmy Rayl, George McGinnis, Rick Mount, Larry Bird, Judi Warren, Stephanie White, and Glenn Robinson, this book gives us a unique insight into the heartbeat of Indiana high school basketball.
The first edition of Phil s book was published in 1986 and the second in 1996. This third edition collects the best chapters of the first two editions, but it also adds important and updated information. For instance, it details the trials and tribulations of going from a one-class state tournament to the current multiclass system.
Now we can all learn why, how, and when Indiana became America s capital of high school basketball. Phil details the bitter rivalries between schools and interviews officials from a few of those heated games. Read Hoosiers , and you ll understand why even today thirteen of America s fourteen biggest high school gyms are in Indiana.
I m so glad Phil walked through my door all those years ago. I think I had an hour scheduled that day but we went way beyond that. In fact, we re still talking about the Hoosier obsession that fascinates us both. Now you too can pull up a chair and join the conversation. I hope you will.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would first like to thank the many players, coaches, fans, referees, entrepreneurs and administrators who allowed me to interview them as I researched this book and its two predecessor editions. They include:
Cindy Ross, Lisa Anderson, Jack Carnes, Gary Holland, Jerry Birge, Al Hardin, Everett Case, Oscar Robertson, Bob Collins, Jim Rosenstihl, Rick Mount, Steve Woolsey, Sam Alford, Judi Warren, Basil DeJernette, Gene Cato, Howard Sharpe, Skip Collins, John Wooden, John Wilson, Harold E