Dick Jones reveals the story behind how the Middletown Middies basketball dynasty of the 1940s and 50s began in a new book, “The Second Dynasty.”

Jones, a native Ohioan, first encountered the Middies when they appeared in the Columbus Coliseum in 1944 on their way to winning the first of seven state championships, a record that still stands today. Middletown also won state championships in 1946, ’47, ’52, ’53, ’56 and ’57.

Jones opens the “readers’ eyes,” according to a press release from book publisher Xlibris, as he traces the beginning of “Ohio’s greatest basketball dynasty to the bold initiatives of the 1920s and 30s and tracks the step-by-step development of the basketball program as it parallels Middletown’s transformation from a pork-shipping hub to a thriving steel town.”

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