With traditions; records; and team lore; this lively book explores the personalities; events; and facts every Badgers fan should know. This guide to all things Badgers covers football and basketball (and even a little hockey); including the Barry Alvarez years; Camp Randall Stadium and the tradition of Jump Around; and the Bo Ryan era. Jesse Temple has collected every essential piece of Badgers knowledge and trivia; including the 1941 NCAA Championship and 1994 Rose Bowl victory; as well as must-do activities; providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist for fans of all ages.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great BookBy RandyInsight to the past struggle and beginnings of the Japanese immigrants who came to California to work. Also to see how the mission work of a local church to reach out to those who did not know Christianity.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy David FernandezEnjoyed very much; thank you.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. History dull? Never!By jules"I like Mary's book because it's just plain interesting. I have always found it amazing that the Japanese harbored their country very little ill will after the internments. Most of them had to rebuild their businesses and came home to a world that had changed. And Southern California is familiar to me. Hollywood is my hometown; after all. Mary traces the first inhabitants of HB back thousands of years through burial rites and artifacts such as the "Universe Effigy." She rarely "tells"- but intersperses what might seem like dry information with retold stories garnered from interviews; uses humor; and knows all the "juicy bits." She makes a display of Orange County citrus at the the World's Columbian Exposition sound so appetizing that I actually went out to the kitchen and cut up a grapefruit and ate it on the spot. (Maybe that's just me. When I read "Gap Creek;" I made a lot of cornbread and drank sake all the way through "Shogun.") Because of the passion she has for the place; use of photos; and the respect she has for current members of the actual families involved; she has turned what might have been a dull read into a fascinating story. I took the book to my book club and to a luncheon of colleagues in Arizona. Many of those I spoke to regarding the book are Phoenix natives and related to the changes that have occurred here; as well as in Wintersburg. Their stories spilled forth for discussion. Believe me; when a non-fiction historical book from a place no one in Arizona has ever heard of can inspire that; you know you have a hit on your hands."
