To find where Jim Leonhard stands tallest, drive east from Minneapolis on the country road Route 8. Enter Packers country, past fields of corn and oats, past the â??Population 105â? signpost.
In Tony, Wis., Jim Leonhard remains their proudest export
Visitors are left with no doubt as to the identity of Tonyâ??s favorite son: a 5-foot-8 athletic overachiever.
Near the Tony Depot, in the center of this speck of a town in northwest Wisconsin, stop at the billboard that makes Leonhard blush, painted with his likeness and adorned with his college accomplishments. The one that says â??Walk-on to All-American.