MANOYAN DOING IT BY THE BOOK
Waukegan News Sun, IL
Jan 16 2008
Waukegan native and former News-Sun sports writer Dan Manoyan has
recently penned his first book.
Manoyan, currently on the college beat for the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel, chronicles the inspirational story of the 1940 boys
basketball team from Granite City in his book "Men of Granite."
The five starters on that team will first generation Americans
who overcame long odds – on and off the court – to win a state
championship.
A Hungarian, two Armenians, a Yugoslav and a Macedonian came together
in the southern Illinois community to become the first team in Illinois
high school history to suffer a tournament loss and emerge as a state
champion, despite the old-school perception that basketball was an
American game and foreigners didn’t have the "essentials" necessary
to succeed.
"Their hard-knock background prepared them to be the quintessential
comeback kids of high school sports," said Manoyan.
The interesting book can be purchased in hard cover or paperback at
or at
Granite City Warriors 1940 Illinois State Champions starting lineup:
* Andy Phillip G
* Evon Parsaghian F
* Andy Hagopian G
* Dan Eftimoff F
* George Cages C
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