Professor Emeritus Bernie Hoogenboom is one of the basketball players featured in a new book titled, “Season of Upsets: Farm boys, city kids, Hoosier basketball and the dawn of the 1950s.” After helping Coldwater High School win a state championship in Michigan, Hoogenboom’s family moved to Michigan City, Indiana for his senior year of high school where he played basketball for Elston High School in 1950. The book is the first one to focus on one geographic area and one season of Indiana high school basketball. It is set in LaPorte County. It captures the essence of Indiana’s crazy love affair with basketball, known as Hoosier hysteria, and Hoogenboom is a part of the story.
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