New book on Wisconsin’s version of ‘Hoosiers’ has campus tie


If you run into Kramer Rock, local civic leader, president of Temployment, Inc., and a member of UW-Green Bay’s Council of Trustees/Foundation Board, he might just tell you about a book he likes. It’s Dodgeville Capturing Hearts, by Rick Birk, and it comes out on the 50th anniversary of the unlikely David vs. Goliath state championship won by the 1964 Dodgeville High School boys basketball team. A good share of the proceeds will benefit a Dodgeville scholarship fund. (Disclosure: Rock was a member of that Dodgers team that was basically the last of Wisconsin’s small-town titlists before the WIAA ditched the one-class system and began awarding multiple gold balls, with divisions based on school size.)