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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. Relying on narrative strategies of creative nonfiction rather than strict historical rendering, Mike Roos brings to life a colorful and varied cast of characters and provides a compelling account of their struggles, wide-ranging emotions, and triumphs throughout the season.
- Sales Rank: #1304557 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-09-17
- Released on: 2013-09-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Fifty years ago the term ‘Hoosier Hysteria’ had a truly special meaning and a band of ‘Spuds’ solidified it. In short, Mike Roos’s work about this unique team and special time is a must read! Any true ‘Hoosier’ will be taken to a better place!" ―Jerry Reynolds, Director of Player Personnel and Broadcaster for NBA Sacramento Kings
"For One Small Town, One Crazy Coach’s 302 lively pages, Mike Roos keeps an era and his childhood alive." ―Indiana Magazine of History
"[Roos's] gift for descriptive detail, his deep knowledge of both the game of basketball and the culture of southern Indiana hamlets, and his from-the-heart dedication to the narratvie materials at hand make One Small Town, One Crazy Coach a compelling read." ―Bloom Magazine
"One Small Town, One Crazy Coachis an outstanding book that reflects the true passion of high school basketball in Indiana and its impact on a community. This story is a clear expression of a coach and his team's unwavering belief in accomplishing something special. You’ll thoroughly enjoy following the 1963 Ireland Spuds as they chase their piece of Indiana Basketball History." ―Michael Lewis, Assistant Coach, Butler University
"Mike Roos's One Small Town, One Crazy Coach is a wonderful addition to the literature of the only game that matters in the Hoosier state. Fans of Hoosiers and John Feinstein's A Season on the Brink will discover not simply a tale of Davids taking on Goliaths but a tribute to the villages and hamlets of the Midwest, many of whose home high schools disappeared thanks to public-school consolidation in the 1970s. The minute Ireland's gentle giant principal, Jim Roos―the author's father―hires the raw, impassioned Pete Gill to lead the Spuds, readers also know they're meeting one of the all-time characters in coaching―a man with a peculiar mixture of discipline and impulse, and one given to spectacle. The iconic moment Gill tosses his trousers into the stands captures the sheer exhilaration of victory―a rightful reminder that winning is as much about giddy absurdity as sentimental triumph." ―Kirk Curnutt, author of Breathing Out the Ghost, winner of the 2008 Best Books of Indiana Award for Best Novel
"One Small Town, One Crazy Coach is a piece of Indiana basketball history that reawakens memories of the glory days of high school teams in Southern Indiana." ―Chris May, Executive Director, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame
"Mike Roos has captured for basketball fans and general readers alike the essence of what Indiana basketball and small town life was all about in the 1960s. Along the way, there's lots of 'string music' that will send readers right back to a bygone golden era of Hoosier Hysteria." ―Joe Dean, Color commentator for SEC basketball
"Mike Roos cleverly articulates the trials and tribulations faced by all small town Indiana basketball coaches during an era of HoosierHysteria when against all odds, little known high schools became legendary in defeating those larger schools that routinely dominated the game. Relive one such unpredictable quest orchestrated by Pete Gill's motivational style andexecuted by the 1963 Ireland Spud players who believed in their coach." ―Jack Butcher, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame
"You don’t need to know a lot about basketball to fall in love with this book. It’s more than a book about basketball. It’s about the people of Ireland, the way they thought, the things they hoped, and their lives." ―Little Indiana
"For everyone that loved Hoosiers, here is the next volume. But unlike Hoosiers, which was only based on a true event but was embellished with an anthology of events that occurred in dozens of small post-war Indiana towns, this one is took place in a town half the size of "Hickory". You will laugh and cry as you fall in love with the characters and the compelling story of the Ireland Spuds circa 1963." ―Del Harris, former coach of the Los Angeles Lakers
"A great tribute to Coach Pete Gill and the 1963 Ireland Spuds. It is a message of faith as a 'crazy' coach leads an underdog team to high achievements against all odds. This book is a true picture of what small town basketball was like in southern Indiana in 1963, and the power of small town spirit." ―Don Buse, Former ABA and NBA All Star, Indiana Pacers
"For anyone who grew up in this 'basketball crazy state'...One Small Town, One Crazy Coach is a must read.Mike Roos takes us on a wonderful trip back to when Hoosier Basketball was the ONLY game in town... not just a story about High School Hoops... but an inside look at that glorious era when Indiana Boys basketball meant everything to an entire community." ―Mike Blake, NBC Sports Commentator
"Many of the schools Ireland High School played in 1962-1963 disappeared in the consolidation rush of the 1970s. Mike Roos... grew up in this world ('the golden age of Indiana high school basketball'), his father was the principal of Ireland High School during its trip to the promised land, and he knows basketball inside and out. I can't imagine anyone more qualified than Mr. Roos to bring Indiana high school basketball history to life―especially in this the 50th anniversary year. His is indeed an original―and valuable―work." ―Don Daiker, Emeritus Professor of English, Miami University, Oxford
"Memories of 50 years ago....After reading the book, Pete [Gill] was crazier than I imagined." ―Jim Jones, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Coach
About the Author
Mike Roos is Professor of English at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. His website is http://www.mikeroos.com.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
I was there, It was a crazy fun time! A true accounting!
By Ken B
Just finished this book yesterday! What a great read, a delightful remembrance for me and such a true story about typical small town Indiana basketball, community, school, family and friends back in the 60s! As a Junior in High School at the time and a statistician for the team, I lived first hand what Mike wrote in this book about the basketball games. He recorded it so perfectly. Naturally, the hiring process and information about Coach Gill was new news to me, very interesting and knowing most of the characters mentioned in the book, I can close my eyes and hear those conversations taking place.........along with some colorful language that may have been closer to reality! A great town to grow up in, a great time in its history and Mike did a great job of putting it on paper! Thank You Mike...........and your Dad for guiding us during that fun and exciting time!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Brings back great memories
By Karen J. Lyons
This is a great book for any person who loves small towns and basketball. This book brought back many memories for me. I also grew up in Southern Indiana and lived in a small town that is frequently mentioned in the book, Tell City. I was in high school from 1972-1976 and during that time, and before Tell City enjoyed great success in basketball. It was a foregone conclusion that we would win sectional. The only question was if we would win regional too. Tournament season was a highlight of the year much the same as Christmas. The whole town was involved. We also travelled in a caravan to every game of sectional and regional and back home. After winning sectional or regional, we travelled in a caravan all the way home from Boonville or Evansville and ended with a huge, boisterous, horn-honking parade down Main Street lead with the players on the fire truck. We had a contest to paint all the store windows on Main Street. We had competitions between the classes to decorate the halls at school. We had spirit days and rousing pep assemblies where Superintendent Swadley would get up and lead a cheer of Go,go,go,go! I think he was also mentioned in the book. Also, Mr. Steftenagel eventually ended up at Tell City High School as our Asst Principal and I knew him very well. He was a fine man. The Roos family eventually moved to Tell City and lived next door to my aunt and uncle. I knew the younger kids as well as Mike's parents, and even had Mike for English when he was student teaching. I never knew that they lived in Ireland before coming to Tell City until this book came out. Unfortunately, for Tell City, my class did not have a great team and lost the sectional for the first time in many years. The grief in town that year is indescribable. I don't think Tell City basketball ever really recovered from that loss. Basketball is not really the same in Indiana any more with consolidation and class system but is still very enjoyable and the games are still a gathering place for a small town. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and highly recommend it. It is also a great book about people and relationships so I think anyone would enjoy it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Even if you're not into sports...
By EmilyRB
“One Small Town, One Crazy Coach,” is a very fun read. Even if you do not possess even the most basic knowl- edge of basketball, you will understand that this crazy, eclectic coach, Pete Gill, means business, and you will see how his small town Indiana high school bas- ketball team, the Ireland Spuds, grows as a whole towards each of its achieved victories.
Gill, the central character of the book, is portrayed as being propelled by an un- conventional sense of sportsmanship. He offers himself up on crazy incentive tactics. He hides neither a sense of frugality nor a personality, which many regarded as crass, or “not-so-Dimp-Stefenagel,” the previous coach.
As a reader, I developed a connection with Pete Gill, Red Keusch, Jim Roos, and other characters as they each entered the story from separate angles and combined to form a most unlikely successful school sports team.
The book does present its own element of believability, as the team wins almost all it hopes to, on its way to the Indiana Sweet Sixteen, before losing to the much bigger defending state champions, Evansville Bosse.
Since Ireland had never won a post- season tournament under legendary for- mer coach Dimp Stefenagel or any other coach, for that matter, each win becomes more monumental than the previous.
At the conclusion of the story, Pete Gill comes full-circle from being the sup- posed athletic heretic of the town to be- ing a small town hero. The reader is sad- dened that the journey has come to an end.
However, it holds within itself what all literary works do—a great story that lives on, forever!
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