"Includes the great personalities of the game-Larry Bird, Rick Mount, and the maniacal Bobby Knight-yet keeps the locus local, social, and intimate." -
The Boston Globe
Praised by the
New York Times as "a knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America" and containing a new foreword by legendary player Bob Plump, this is a book every basketball lover should own. The best of Phillip Hoose's classic writings are included here with a fresh look on Indiana's favorite and most beloved sport. A new edition of a well-known Indiana classic,
Hoosiers profiles some of the world's most famous basketball players and coaches-Larry Bird, Bobby Plump, Damon Bailey, Steve Alford, Stephanie White, and Bob Knight among them-along with Indiana towns, schools, and programs. The ultimate book for the diehard fan,
Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana explores Hoosier hysteria in all its glory.
"To say this little gem is a sports book is to say
The Sun Also Rises is about bullfighting." -Scripps Howard News Service
"Phillip Hoose examines the phenomenon of Indiana basketball with wit and whimsy." -
U.S. News & World Report
"If you're a Hoosier Hysteric, call time out and go buy it; if you're not, reading
Hoosiers will be like studying the strange ways of a cult that worships gym shoes." -
Playboy
"This superbly written piece of sports journalism will alternately tickle the funnybone and pluck at the heartstrings of basketball fans everywhere." -
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