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The Milan Miracle: The Town That Hoosiers Left Behind

The Milan Miracle: The Town That Hoosiers Left Behind

Riley, Bill
Oliu, Brian
Butcher, Jack

Paperback

Basketball

ISBN10: 0253020891
ISBN13: 9780253020895
Publisher: Quarry Books
Published: Aug 29 2016
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Will lightning ever strike twice? Can David beat Goliath a second time? These questions haunt everyone in the small town of Milan, Indiana, whose basketball team inspired Hoosiers, the greatest underdog sports movie ever made. From a town of just 1,816 residents, the team remains forever an underdog, but one with a storied past that has them eternally frozen in their 1954 moment of glory. Every ten years or so, Milan has a winning season, but for the most part, they only manage a win or two each year. And still, perhaps because it's the only option for Milan, the town believes that the Indians can rise again. Bill Riley follows the modern day Indians for a season and explores how the Milan myth still permeates the town, the residents, and their high level of expectations of the team. Riley deftly captures the camaraderie between the players and their coach and their school pride in being Indians. In the end, there are few wins or causes for celebration--there is only the little town where basketball is king and nearly the whole town shows up to watch each game. The legend of Milan and Hoosiers is both a blessing and a curse.

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