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One Small Town, One Crazy Coach: The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season
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$26.00
By Mike Roos, Don Buse, Chris May, Jerry Reynolds, Kirk Curnutt, Mike Blake, Joe Dean, Michael Lewis, Jack Butcher
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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 ...