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The Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told

The Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told The Milan Miracle, Then and Now

Hardback (01 Jun 1993)

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Publisher's Synopsis

"I have always considered it the best sports story ever, in a state blessed by so many." - E. Bob Hammel. The whole world discovered the "Milan miracle" 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, Indiana's premier sports writer, says: "Happy reading, and remembering, and reminiscing."

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Book information

ISBN: 9780253326881
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Pub date:
DEWEY: 796.32362097712
DEWEY edition: 20
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 782g
Height: 232mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 23mm