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Pigskin: Early Years of Pro Football Book

Pigskin : Hardback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195076073 : 0195076079 : 16 Jan 1997 : Today professional football is America's leading spectator sport, largely because of television. Before the late 1950s, it was a distinctly minor pro sport. The book traces pro football from its beginnings in the towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio early in the 20th century to its arrival as a major sport in the 1950s.Read More

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  • Amazon Review

    While baseball's pastoral pace never lets us forget its past, football's martial-like essence seems forever fixed in the present. Yet, borne on the broad backs of men like Pudge Heffelfinger, Jim Thorpe, George Halas, Red Grange, Sammy Baugh, and Bronco Nagurski, football's history is filled with a legend, color, and personality as intriguing and all-American as that usually ascribed to baseball. Like a good offensive guard, Pigskin does yeoman-like work in the trenches, opening the right holes for football's barnstorming, step-child past to rush through. Thoroughly researched and authoritatively written, it helps resuscitate a sporting era--from the late 19th century to the dawn of saturation TV--when the passion for playing the game was far more alluring than all those soulless numbers on the business end of the dollar sign.

  • Product Description

    Presents a lively, informative overview of the early years of professional football, from the late 1880s to the beginning of the television era, tracing the development of the National Football League and offering profiles of the game's early superstars. UP.

  • 0195076079
  • 9780195076073
  • Robert W. Peterson
  • 1 January 1997
  • Oxford University Press Inc
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
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