The Milan Miracle
Title | The Milan Miracle PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Riley |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2016-08-29 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0253020956 |
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.
The Milan Miracle
Title | The Milan Miracle PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Riley |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-08-29 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780253020895 |
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.
The Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told, 50th Anniversary Edition
Title | The Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told, 50th Anniversary Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Guffey |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2003-08-21 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780253216311 |
"Nothing in basketball beats Hoosier Hysteria, and this true-life Cinderella story of the 1954 Milan Indians has it all--courage, heart, suspense, and triumph. Greg Guffey brings the team and its championship odyssey to life again in this action-packed book. A great read " --Digger Phelps With the release of the movie Hoosiers starring Gene Hackman, the whole world discovered the "Milan Miracle." The true story of the Milan miracle is even better, and Greg Guffey tells it here in graphic and gripping detail. Here we get to know the real Coach Marvin Wood and the remarkable group of high school players who defeated mighty Muncie Central. In his new introduction, Guffey talks about the switch to class basketball in Indiana and the legacy of this story for the town and for the legendary team.
The Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told
Title | The Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Guffey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN |
ÒI have always considered it the best sports story ever, in a state blessed by so many.ÓÊÑBob HammelThe whole world discovered the ÒMilan miracleÓ when Hollywood based the Gene Hackman movie Hoosiers on it. The true Milan miracle is even better, and Greg Guffey tells it here for the first time in a graphic and gripping narrative. We get to know the real Coach Marvin Wood (who did have some opposition in the town, but not of the sort faced by Gene Hackman), the remarkable group of players whose coalescence as a team is as fascinating as anything in sports history, the town, the preceding season, the season itself, the excitement of the tournament, and the lives that the leading participants have led and the impact the game had on them and the town.Bob Hammel, IndianaÕs premier sports writer, says: ÒHappy reading, and remembering, and reminiscing.Ó
The Golden Age of Indiana High School Basketball
Title | The Golden Age of Indiana High School Basketball PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Guffey |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253218187 |
This is a book for all fans of Indiana basketball.
Milan '54 Hoosiers Museum
Title | Milan '54 Hoosiers Museum PDF eBook |
Author | Milan '54 Hoosiers Musuem, Inc |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Basketball |
ISBN |
Evoking the New City
Title | Evoking the New City PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Joseph Budzynski |
Publisher | Mimesis |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-05-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788869772627 |
In reconstructing Milan after World War II, architects looked back to the relatively young tradition of modern architecture in Italy, while simultaneously re-ordering its narratives. Focusing on skyscrapers, housing, and city planning, this book approaches Milan as a great example of postwar city through architecture, film, and print media.