Tales from the Indiana High School Basketball Locker Room: A Collection of the State's Greatest Basketball Stories Ever Told

by Washburn Jeff, Smith Ben

Overview

Recapture the memorable moments of Indiana High School Basketball—newly updated!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683581536
Publisher:	Sports Publishing LLC
Publication date:	11/21/2017
Series:	Tales from the Team
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Jeff Washburn, a Lafayette native and 1976 Purdue graduate, covered Indiana high school basketball for the Lafayette Journal&Courier for more than twenty years, reporting on every Indiana state finals from 1976 through 1994. He is now in his nineteenth season covering the Purdue sports beat for AP and the FW Journal Gazette.

Ben Smith, a 2013 inductee into the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame, has covered sports in Indiana for nearly forty years. He is now a marketing writer at Manchester University in northeast Indiana.
Jeff Washburn, a Lafayette native and 1976 Purdue graduate, covered Indiana high school basketball for the Lafayette Journal&Courier for more than twenty years, reporting on every Indiana state finals from 1976 through 1994. He is now in his nineteenth season covering the Purdue sports beat for AP and the FW Journal Gazette. Washburn was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 Legends 1

Chapter 2 Early Players and Coaches 27

Chapter 3 Modern Players and Coaches 67

Chapter 4 Small-Town Teams 103

Chapter 5 City Teams 135

Chapter 6 Family 159

Chapter 7 The Youngest Mr. Basketball 175

Chapter 8 Miscellaneous 187