Sparkplug Of The Hornets

By Stephen W. Meader

Book Overview

Though Peewee Carson had starred on a midget league team in the city, he was really too small to make the high school basketball team in the upstate town to which he and his family had just moved. However, the school enrollment was not large and because the team needed every possible player Peewee got his chance. That was all he needed. Before long it was obvious that, though pint-sized, his speed and team spirit made him a worthy opponent to larger players. Slowly the Hornets, despite their lack of reserves, began to pull ahead in their league, and eventually qualified for the state finals. In a series of fast, trigger-tense games they reached the playoff-the peak of every team's ambition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931177716
• ISBN13: 9781931177719
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Southern Skies Publishing, LLC
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Sparkplug of the Hornets A Must for Young Aspiring Basketball Players

I read this book in 1963 at thirteen years old. My eighth grade basketball team won the city league, the playoffs and then went to the state tournament and took third place. The book and story inspired me to the point I was playing with a basketball so much I ended up on the All State Tournament All Star team. I credit this wonderful story for boys with my continued career in the sport through high school, a walk on at college and playing for an AAU team in the Midwest until 25 years old. Meader captures the essence of those days when life was much simpler, a good lesson for today's youth. This book could easily be compared to the movie HOOSIERS.