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Sweet Charlie, Dike, Cazzie, and Bobby Joe : high school basketball in Illinois
- Title
- Sweet Charlie, Dike, Cazzie, and Bobby Joe : high school basketball in Illinois / Taylor H.A. Bell.
- Author
- Bell, Taylor H. A., 1940-
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2004.
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Details
- Description
- 248 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "Far from the jaded professionals, the stories in Taylor Bell's Sweet Charlie, Dike, Cazzie, and Bobby Joe are of hungry young men playing their hearts out, where high-tops and high hopes inspire "hoop dreams" from Peoria to Pinckneyville, and Champaign to Chicago. Bell, a lifelong fan and authority on high school basketball in Illinois for more than 40 years, brings together for the first time the stories of the great players, teams, and coaches from the 1940s through the 1990s."
- "The book is titled for four players who reflect the unique quality of high school basketball, and whose first names are enough to trigger memories in fans who love the sport - Sweet Charlie Brown, Dike Eddleman, Cazzie Russell, and Bobby Joe Mason. Bell offers accounts of their exploits, told with a journalistic flair."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-235) and index.
- Contents
- 1: The 1940s: Centralia: winningest team in history -- Dike Eddleman: the greatest athlete of all -- Taylorville: 45-0 in 1943-44 -- Paris: the Ernie Eveland era -- Decatur: end of an era -- Champaign: Combes to Cabutti -- South shore: gaining respect -- Pinckneyville: two legendary coaches -- Mount Vernon: three titles in six years -- Max Hooper: the captain -- 2: The 1950s: Segregated schools: "power of the pointed finger" -- Hebron: the giant killers -- St. Elizabeth: gone but never forgotten -- Chico Vaughn/Joe Aden: only fifteen miles apart -- Lyons: a generation apart -- Du sable: where we've come from -- Rockford: six points in one second -- Elgin: Bill Chesbrough era -- Marshall: remember the juniors -- George Wilson: the Messiah comes to play -- 3: the 1960s: Collinsville: bogie's hometown -- Vergil Fletcher: a winner and a visionary -- Carver 53, centralia 52: Smedley's game-winning shot -- Cazzie Russell: in a class by himself -- Pekin: four years of glory -- Cobden: in memory of Tom Crowell -- Rich Herrin: "a gem of a man" -- Galesburg: the John Thiel era -- Thornton: Lipe, Lou, LaMarr, Lloyd -- Billy Harris: the fastest gunslinger of all -- 4: the 1970s: Two-class system: David vs. Foliath -- Thornridge: the best there ever was -- Bob Dallas: down on the farm -- Jay Shidler: ride with shide -- Bloom: tales from Hungry Hill -- East Leyden: 104-4 in four years -- Jim Hlafka: home sweet home -- Chicago public league: rise to power -- Isiah Thomas: hoop dreams and Disneyland -- Maine south: the biggest upset of all -- 5: 1980s: Glenn Rivers: Doc makes house calls -- Quincy: the Hanks/Leggett feud -- Lawrenceville: 68-0 -- Mount Carmel: one of a kind -- Springfield: bragging rights -- Ben Wilson: too young to die -- King: the Landon Cox era -- East St. Louis Lincoln: four tiles in eight years -- Andy Kaufmann: making a point of his own -- East St. Louis Lincoln vs. Peoria central: triple overtime -- 6: the 1990s: Move to Peoria: march madness finds a new home -- Proviso east: three coaches, four state titles -- Pittsfield: they play basketball, too -- Staunton: they all came together -- Peoria: "cradle of the crossover dribble" -- Dick Van Scyoc: 826 career victories -- Peoria manual: four state titles in a row -- Quad cities: "the greatest high school arena" -- East Aurora/West Aurora: rivalry heats up -- Westinghouse: the white shadow's legacy.
- ISBN
- 0252029488
- 9780252029486
- 0252071999
- 9780252071997
- 9780252090486 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2004002535
- OCLC
- ocm54424828
- 54424828
- SCSB-1348895
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library