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1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 302 pages)
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illustrations
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Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0253010284
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0253010357
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9780253010285
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9780253010353
Content:
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 wins were predicted for the Spuds. Yet, after inflicting brutal preseason conditioning, employing a variety of unconventional motivational tactics, and overcoming fierce opposition, Gill molded the Spuds into a winning team that brought home the town's first and only sectional and regional titles. Relyin
Content:
23 Divine Insanity24 Keep Your Pants On; 25 The Axe Just Fell; 26 Fame; 27 Small Potatoes; 28 Invasion of the Little Green Men; Epilogue
Content:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Gloomsday; 2 No Irish in Ireland; 3 Neither a Drunkard Nor a Bank Robber; 4 Baptisms; 5 Turkey Run and the White Horse Tavern; 6 A Wop and a Wimp and a Moon; 7 Too Much Is Not Enough; 8 Life under the Knife; 9 Ice Man; 10 Your Blood, Your Sweat, Your Tears; 11 Drill, Baby, Drill!; 12 Soap and Towel and Wings of Fire; 13 Highway 61 Revisited; 14 The Buy In; 15 Devil in Blue Jeans; 16 Coal for Christmas; 17 I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing; 18 Of Jeeps and Giants; 19 The Dude; 20 Preliminaries; 21 Walk Like a Man; 22 The Prophet's Vision
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English
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ISBN 9780253010285
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0253010284
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Roos, Mike One Small Town, One Crazy Coach : The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2013 ISBN 9780253010285
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