Like most Indiana youngsters, Ron Bonham started dribbling almost as soon as he stopped drooling. As a high school senior in 1960, Bonham was a basketball coach's dream: he scored an average of 29 points a game, led Muncie's Central High to the finals of the state championships, and headed an Indiana All-Star team that trounced the Kentucky All-Stars, 101-64. Indiana coaches and sportswriters voted him "Mr. Basketball," touted him as the brightest college prospect to come out of the Hoosier State since the great Oscar ("Big O") Robertson (TIME cover, Feb. 17)....
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