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

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...

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Autor principal: Roos, Mike, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Quarry Books. an imprint of Indiana University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Gloomsday -- No Irish in Ireland -- Neither a Drunkard Nor a Bank Robber -- Baptisms -- Turkey Run and the White Horse Tavern -- A Wop and a Wimp and a Moon -- Too Much Is Not Enough -- Life under the Knife -- Ice Man -- Your Blood, Your Sweat, Your Tears -- Drill, Baby, Drill! -- Soap and Towel and Wings of Fire -- Highway 61 Revisited -- The Buy In -- Devil in Blue Jeans -- Coal for Christmas -- I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing -- Of Jeeps and Giants -- The Dude -- Preliminaries -- Walk Like a Man -- The Prophet's Vision -- Divine Insanity -- Keep Your Pants On -- The Axe Just Fell -- Fame -- Small Potatoes -- Invasion of the Little Green Men -- Epilogue. 
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