BESSEMER – Upper Peninsula author Thomas L. Pelissero announced the official release of his first book, “Bring One Home: A Memoir of Boyhood, Basketball, and Hometown Spirit.” the book is described as an in-depth look at the true story of the struggles the Bessemer Speedboys high school basketball team faced in the 1960s.

Pelissero, who grew up in Bessemer and currently resides in Gogebic County’s Erwin Township, was inspired to write the book after flipping through his old scrapbook and seeing a newspaper clipping featuring the Bessemer Speedboys basketball team cutting down the net after ending their prolonged losing streak. As he was remembering that night and those wonderful memories, the historian in him asked, “What was the root cause of the Speedboys’ long losing streak?”

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