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.
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An unusually perceptive and entertaining study of heartland America.
(The Chicago Tribune) Transcends sports and operates as cultural history. . .Warm, graceful, full of the happy savor of letter jackets and cheerleaders' sweaters.
(The Boston Globe) Indiana history as view 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) Will appeal not only to basketball fanatics but to mainstream readers as well. It is a knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America.
(The New York Times) From reviews of the second edition: Hoose develops a narrative that transcends sports and operates as cultural historyWarm, 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.
- The 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.
- The Sporting News 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) A knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America.
(The New York Times) A truly superior book. . . It's a steal.
(The Indianapolis News)
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68 b&w illus., 1 map - 68 Illustrations, black and white - 1 Halftones, black and white
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-253-02162-5 (9780253021625)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Phillip M. Hoose is the widely-acclaimed author of books, essays, stories, songs, and articles, including the National Book Award winning book, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. He is also the author of the multi-award winning title, The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, the National Book Award Finalist We Were There Too!: Young People in U.S. History, and the Christopher Award-winning manual for youth activism, It's Our World Too!
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
