It was my recent privilege to write an article for the fall 2019 issue of the Indiana Basketball History Magazine…
There were fifteen rural grade schools in Jefferson County, Illinois, when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s,…
One of my favorite events that I related in the book An Almost Perfect Season: A Father and Son and…
A Country Boy on a City Boy Basketball Team Some of the great Illinois high school basketball players sometimes get…
One of southern Illinois’ most successful basketball teams you probably never heard of. Accounts from Illinois newspaper sports pages clearly…
A Brief History of Some of the Best Bluford High School Basketball Teams and Scorers, 1950-1970 During the exciting, highly…
While my book, An Almost Perfect Season, primarily features Bluford basketball teams, the book also give ample space to many…
In the book An Almost Perfect Season: A Father and Son and a Golden Age of Small Town High School…
In the 1968-1969 Illinois high school basketball season, tiny Bluford High School, having just over a hundred students, reeled off…
This photo, taken from the 1969 Webber Township (Bluford) High School yearbook, shows me as a rather solemn looking senior…