Need a last minute Christmas gift for an IU Basketball fan?

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I've written a new IU basketball book along with co-author Tom Brew that is the perfect last minute Christmas gift for the IU fan on your list. I can personalize it to you or the IU fan on your list and mail it as early as today. See all the info below.

Looking for an easy Christmas gift for that IU basketball fan on your list?

 

Or would you just like a great read for yourself?

 

I have two Indiana basketball books that are out in time for the holidays.

 

The new one, released just last Saturday and not really available in many bookstores yet is Missing Banners, a book I co-wrote with my friend Tom Brew. This book looks at all the years in IU basketball history where people felt the Hoosiers had a team worthy to hang a national championship banner but for whatever reason it didn’t work out that way.

 

We focus on five years in particular from five different decades: 1975, 1980, 1993, 2002 and 2013. If you look at the cover closely that is provided here you’ll see that we have the five national championship banners in the background and the years on them on the ones of the teams we focused on.

 

What makes this a fun read is that Tom and I went back and talked to players from all those teams and we get their perspectives all these years later. In many cases there are a lot of stories told in here that I’ve never seen before in print. We also talk about a few other teams that could have made a claim at a banner like 1954 and 1960 to name a few.

 

My guess is you’ll be hearing a lot about Missing Banners in the next few months. First week sales have been brisk.

 

My other book that has been out for a few months is an IU basketball trivia book called “So You Think You Know Indiana University Basketball”. It’s 450 questions of IU hoops trivia with chapters on players, coaches, national championship teams, venues, numbers worn by various IU standouts and a lot of fun facts, too. There’s also a 50-question chapter on Bob Knight.

 

So how can you get your hands on copies of the book by Christmas?

 

If you want autographed copies with personal inscriptions, send me a note via email at Terry_Hutchens@yahoo.com and I’ll take care of you. Missing Banners goes for $18 and my trivia book retails for $14. For Btownbanners.com folks, I can do the trivia book for $10. There isn’t as much wiggle room, however, on Missing Banners.

 

One easy form of payment is to use Facebook Messenger and just send me the payment that way. Add $3 for shipping and handling if you want one book, $5 for two and then an extra dollar per book beyond that. But just drop me a note at Terry_Hutchens@yahoo.com and let me know how many you want, who you want me to sign the books to and where I can mail them. Then let me know if you’re going to pay via Facebook Messenger or send me a check. If you’re sending a check I’d prefer to get it before I mail the books out unless you’re somebody I know. That’s why the Facebook Messenger option is so easy. You go the Facebook place where you would send someone a direct message and click on the three dots next to that. You’ll see ‘Send Payment’ as an option and then you just choose the amount that will be transferred from your debit card to mine. I’ve probably had 25 people order books this week using that method and all say it is extremely easy.

 

If you live in the Indianapolis area, make note of that in your email and I’ll try to find a way to meet you with books either Sunday, Monday or Tuesday of this week. In other words I can easily get them in your hands by Christmas. Do it this way and obviously don’t worry about the shipping charge. I’ve spent a lot of time this week either mailing the new books out or personally delivering orders.

 

If you don’t want a personalized, autographed copy mailed to you, then both books are available on Amazon and the trivia book can be purchased through Barnes and Noble, too. We’re working to get Missing Banners in that system as well.

 

If you’re in Indianapolis, Tom Brew and myself will be signing copies of the books tonight, Saturday Dec. 19, from 7-9 p.m at the Barnes & Noble in Carmel. I’ll also be doing a signing on Sunday in Fort Wayne at the Barnes & Noble Jefferson Pointe from 1-3 p.m.

 

If you get on this quickly though and order books from me through my email address there’s a good chance if you use the Facebook Messenger option for payment that I can still get your books in the mail today.

 

Thanks for your support….Terry

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[HoosierReb01 7,591]

Bump.

[MartintheMopMan 7,765]

Oh hey, was that missing banners podcast I never got around to an interview with you? I will go back and catch it then.

[coachmayhew 1,414]

I bought 3 copies of Missing Banners, 1 for me and two for Christmas gifts. Tom Brew delivered them personally while driving through Indy. He was also kind enough to sign all 3 copies for me.

[mamasa 15,908]

Got my signed copy yesterday