Move Over Milan It's Reedsville's Time

By Peter Schmitt

When the idea to write this compelling story became more of a necessity than an avocation, I knew there would be a parallel drawn to another small high school basketball team in southern Indiana who gained a special place in sports history by winning their 1954 state high school basketball championship. The adulation and attention given Milan High School at the time was nothing compared to what Hollywood would create three decades later for a community when Milan suddenly became Hickory High School of the famed movie Hoosiers. The story gained momentum through the years because every small school in Indiana used their unlikely triumph as a rallying cry to succeed in a one class basketball tournament that allowed them only the faintest opportunity to succeed. Yes, their feat became the basis for a similar setting in Reedsville, Wisconsin when its high school of ten country boys did the unthinkable and won the 1946 state championship against enormous odds. Greater than Milan? We think so.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1537220047
• ISBN13: 9781537220048
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"