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The Milan Miracle : the town that Hoosiers left behind / Bill Riley.
Van Pelt Library GV885.42.M55 R45 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riley, Bill (Sportswriter), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Milan Indians (Basketball team)--History.
- Milan Indians (Basketball team).
- Basketball--Tournaments--Indiana--History.
- Basketball.
- Basketball--Tournaments.
- History.
- Milan (Ind.)--Social life and customs.
- Milan (Ind.).
- Manners and customs.
- Indiana.
- Indiana--Milan.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 175 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Quarry Books an imprint of Indiana University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Will lightning ever strike twice? Can David beat Goliath a second time? These questions haunt everyone in the small town of Milan, Indiana, whose basketball team inspired Hoosiers, the greatest underdog sports movie ever made. From a town of just 1,816 residents, the team remains forever an underdog, but one with a storied past that has them eternally frozen in their 1954 moment of glory. Every ten years or so, Milan has a winning season, but for the most part, they only manage a win or two each year. And still, perhaps because it's the only option for Milan, the town believes that the Indians can rise again. Bill Riley follows the modern-day Indians for a season and explores how the Milan myth still permeates the town, the residents, and their high level of expectations of the team. Riley deftly captures the camaraderie between the players and their coach and their school pride in being Indians. In the end, there are few wins or causes for celebration-there is only the little town where basketball is king and nearly the whole town shows up to watch each game. The legend of Milan and Hoosiers is both a blessing and a curse. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Measurements and Priorities 9
- 2 Growing Up Milan 16
- 3 We Ask For a Chance That's Fair 25
- 4 Home 35
- 5 Working for Free 44
- 6 All Quiet 53
- 7 The Expendables 61
- 8 Games within the Game 69
- 9 Change for the Nice Boys 77
- 10 Stalling 89
- 11 Again 98
- 12 Something Positive 103
- 13 Sitting Together 112
- 14 Hysteria 120
- 15 The Milan Everyone Expects 130
- 16 Senior Night 141
- 17 Hope 145
- 18 Both Lion And Lamb 154
- 19 Graduation 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Riley, Bill, (Sportswriter), author. Milan Miracle
- ISBN:
- 9780253020895
- 0253020891
- 9780253020956
- 0253020956
- OCLC:
- 918590741
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