Description
Before the Milan miracle of 1954, Winslow Eskimos carried the basketball banner for small school overachievement in southern Indiana. From a coal mining town on the Patoka River, they won sectionals and regionals against big schools from cities. When the Milan Indians won their state championship, Winslow High School made a deep run too – its third in five years. There’s a movie about Milan, called Hoosiers. Now there is a book about old Winslow High and the colorful town that spawned it.
Interspersed with verbatim interviews from former players, college teammates and family members, Eskimo Fever chronicles the entire history of the school’s proud basketball program, from the pioneers of the 1910s to the last team in 1974. Greatness first arrived in the 1920s and repeated in the early ’40s. Then came the glory of the ’50s and two transcendent stars – Dick Farley and Dick Kinder – who won fame in college and beyond.
This book features transcribed interviews with icons of Hoosier basketball: Indiana Pacers legend Bobby “Slick” Leonard, Milan hero Bobby Plump, and Holland’s Gene Tormohlen who played, coached, and scouted in the NBA. To varying degrees each had connections to Winslow players.
