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The Milan Miracle

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Author by : Bill Riley
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2016-08-29
Publisher by : Indiana University Press

ISBN : 0253020891

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

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Author by : Greg Guffey
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1993
Publisher by :

ISBN : UOM:39015033109102

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 Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told 50th Anniversary Edition

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Author by : Greg Guffey
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2003-08-21
Publisher by : Indiana University Press

ISBN : 0253216311

"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 Milan Miracle

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Author by : Bill Riley
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2016-08-29
Publisher by : Indiana University Press

ISBN : 9780253020956

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....

Milan 54 Hoosiers Museum

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Author by : Milan '54 Hoosiers Musuem, Inc
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2021
Publisher by :

ISBN : OCLC:1310466507

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The Golden Age Of Indiana High School Basketball

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Author by : Greg Guffey
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2006
Publisher by : Indiana University Press

ISBN : 9780253218186

This is a book for all fans of Indiana basketball....

Miracle In Milan

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Author by :
Languange Used : un
Release Date : 2006
Publisher by :

ISBN : OCLC:505213673

"The story follows Toto, a newborn discovered in a cabbage patch by an elderly woman. Made homeless as an adult he ends up in a shantytown, inspiring the other homeless to build new homes from scraps of wood and metal" [box cover note]....

Basketball

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Author by : Gary Lee Smith
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2005-07
Publisher by : Gary Lee Smith Inc.

ISBN : 1420852841

It is true, they don't make things the way they used to, they don't do things the way they used to, and the times are not what they used to be. This book is a journey back to the days of my early childhood through high school. What was like to be raised in Indiana basketball country? It was an exciting time with over 700 high school teams from every corner of the state of Indiana competing each year in a single elimination tournament for the Indiana State Basketball Championship. One small school triumphed in a miracle over the great odds against them. It is still for me to imagine what those hundreds of Indiana basketball heroes experienced by having family, friends, classmates, cheerleaders, teachers, community fans for all kinds of reasons, even stranger bystanders, cheering and shouting them on with encouragement. (www.garyleesmith.com)...

Miracle In Milan

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Author by : Vittorio De Sica
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1969
Publisher by :

ISBN : UOM:39015048756764

"Story by Cesare Zavattini, from his novel Totao, il buono."....

Bobby Plump

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Author by : Marty Ford Pieratt
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1997
Publisher by :

ISBN : 0963687395

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