Point Guard

Gary loved to play basketball from
the first moment his hands touched
a ball and he dribbled up and down
his stairs. He always dreamed of
playing point guard on the high
school varsity team. Flustered by
fights with the town bully, and
conflicts with a coach who never gave
him a fair shake, Gary transferred to
Ashland High for his senior year.
Ashland was a sleepy little farm
community in Illinois, it was the place
where he had been born. Gary wasn't
treated like a new kid at all; he was a
wayward friend who'd finally returned
home. Everything began to click with
his new coach and teammates.
At a time for hot rods, tiny Nash
Ramblers, and long black hearses,
Elvis had the top hits on radio and
the juke boxes. Magically, all the
dreams for the purple and white
Ashland Panthers basketball team
began to come true. Point Guard is
the story of how it happened way
back in 1957.