Myles Traveled is a great story. It’s an inspirational story. It’s the American Dream.”

— JIM LACHEY OSU All-American

« back

Bluffton Library Pictures

Posted on December 16, 2014December 16, 2014 by Steve Davis

It was a small, but enthusiastic, and appreciative, crowd at the Bluffton, Ohio Community Library reading and discussion of Myles Traveled last Thursday evening. That’s okay… it made the setting all the more intimate and I love to talk about Coach Myles, and the back story of how the book came about. Better yet, by Friday morning I received some orders from people who had talked to folks who were at the reading Thursday night, and had seen and heard about the book. Below is a picture of yours truly reading a passage on Coach Hayes :

Available now from

Barnhardt & Ashe Publishing, Inc.

(Click link above and scroll down to the “purchase now" button on the publishers website.)

About the Authors

Bill Myles has lived a fascinating life in athletics, from segregated Kansas City and Negro Leagues Baseball, to an up and coming high school coach, and then an insider in the country’s most powerful College Football programs. Bill coached under the giants at Nebraska and Ohio State—Bob Devaney, Tom Osborne, Woody Hayes, and Earle Bruce. With a career record of 170 wins, 67 losses, 7 ties, and 8 Big Eight/Big Ten Championships, Bill coached in 14 college bowl games including the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Orange, Fiesta and Gator Bowls. Bill then served 22 years as Associate AD at Ohio State, in the biggest college athletic department in the country.

Steve Davis is a lifelong Buckeye Fan and a 1973 graduate of The Ohio State University. His first Ohio Stadium experience was the 1969 OSU win over Purdue, which propelled the Buckeyes to a National Championship. Davis was too small (and too slow!) to play for the Buckeyes, instead graduating from the OSU College of Agriculture Honors Program.