Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price clipped dust jacket, 342 pages, b&w illustrations. Paul W. (Bear) Bryant's story in his own words. Together with John Underwood a Sports Illustrated writer, Bryant tells of his years coaching football from his days at Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A & M, and Alabama where he coached for 28 years. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Lyons Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 249 pages, b&w illustrations. William McGarvey "Bullet Bill" Dudley (December 24, 1921 - February 4, 2010) led a thrilling career as a professional American football player in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions, and Washington Redskins. With humble beginnings in Bluefield, Virginia he made the football team his junior year, and in 1938 he kicked a 35-yard field goal in the season's finale. Dudley was drafted in the 1942 NFL Draft with the first overall pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1966 and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1972. During the 1942 season, he led the league in rushing with 696 yards on 162 carries and was then named to the All-Pro team. Steve Stinson revisits his father-in-law's journey from Bluefield, Virginia through his retirement from the NFL and shares everything he brought to communities in between each pivotal moment in Dudley's life. Clean copy.
NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2nd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Covers Karras's life from childhood to his retirement from football. Parts of the book are laugh out loud funny, while other parts are surprisingly sensitive and deep. In addition to football, Karras deals with the death of his father and of his early experiences with women. (They aren't "conquest" stories and usually didn't end up happily for Karras.) Co-authored by Herb Gluck,. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Moffat, Yard and Co, 3rd, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 463 pages. Contains black & white photographs. Light soiling to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 310 pages. The former New York Giant quarterback's journey during the 1962 season. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. n 1962 an Atlanta businessman was accidentally tied into a phone line on which Wally Butts, athletic director of the University of Georgia, was talking to Paul "Bear" Bryant, football coach and athletic director of the University of Alabama. Butts gave Bryant information about the Georgia team's plays and the businessman took notes, which eventually made their way to the president of the university. Butts was allowed to resign. Information about the affair spread to the Saturday Evening Post, then engaged in a "sophisticated muckraking" campaign which published a hastily written and partially inaccurate account. Butts and Bryant both sued the Post; Butts won over $3 million in damages. Kirby, who was the official observer at Butts's trial for football's Southeastern Conference, here offers his own verdict: both Bryant and Butts were guilty of collusion as charged and lied repeatedly; the Post's lawyers were inept and should not have lost the case. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Contemporary Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 398 pages. From its inauspicious beginnings through its improbable Super Bowl victories and its ultimate demise, the American Football League had a colorful and sometimes bizarre ten-year history that will not soon be forgotten. Going Long takes you back to that thrilling decade with the men who made the AFL--and who made it great. In this unique oral history, 170 voices come together to tell the unbelievable story of that maverick league, a rollicking tale of eight teams that refused to die. In 1959, the NFL had just a dozen teams, with only two located west of the Mississippi River. For forty years, it had enjoyed total dominance over the gridiron, tackling rival franchises and knocking them out of the game. But a revolution was coming to American football, and it all began with a man named Lamar Hunt, the Texas millionaire who desperately wanted a league of his own. With a team of enthusiastic investors, Hunt fired what he later called "the first cannon shot in what turned out to be the pro football war." It was a war that would rage on for ten rough-and-tumble years. Flavored with wild (and often ribald) anecdotes, inside stories, personal interviews, and never-before-told material, Going Long brings the incredible story of the upstart AFL to life through the words of the players, coaches, owners, and others who lived it--including Joe Namath, Mike Ditka, Bubba Smith, Roger Staubach, Pat Summerall, Curt Gowdy, and many others. Hearkening back to a simpler time in sports, this behind-the-scenes true story reveals the origins of the modern game we know today and how it all began with a fight to the death for professional football supremacy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. Larry Brown was a running back who played for the NFL's Washington Redskins from 1969 to 1976. An eighth-round draft pick out of Kansas, Brown defied several odds to make the Redskins out of training camp, and then, suddenly, as the team's starting running back. Brown went on to post two 1,000-yard rushing seasons as an integral part of the Redskins' football revival, started with Vince Lombardi in 1969 and then, after Lombardi's 1970 death, carried on by George Allen in 1971. Small tape repair to dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant is recognized nationwide as one of the greatest coaches ever. So why did he always cite his 1-9 A&M team of 1954 as his favorite? This is the story of a remarkable team - and the beginning of the legend. The Junction Boys tells the story of Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's legendary training camp in the small town of Junction, Texas. In a move that many consider the salvation of the Texas A&M football program, Coach Bryant put 115 players through the most grueling practices ever imagined. Only a handful of players survived the entire 10 days, but they braved the intense heat of the Texas sun and the burning passion of their coach, and turned a floundering team into one of the nation's best. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine. "Here is Rock as his players knew him, the builder of men and the builder of teams. Here are the methods he used, the wizardry that made Notre Dame the outstanding name in football. Here are the inside stories of the hardest games, the greatest victories, the astounding upsets of the Fighting Irish. And here are the secrets of the Rockne system which produced not only great teams not only at Notre dame but from coast to coast as his men and others carried on." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Hardcover with stamped lettering on front and spine. Light edgewear to covers, and pages. Light soil on corners. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine faded. Soil on spine. Illustrated by Edwin Earle.
Hardcover. NY, Random House , 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "An irreverent, roguish account of Karras's and Gordy's lives as football players, full of reminiscence and nostalgia, often tempered by frievance, but always with an underlying humor- "as if their occupations were only acceptable in that light." The result is a vivid look at a brutal world, peppered with Karras's fantasies, Gordy's anecdotes and badinage, and the acute visual and aural observations of the author, a reporter whose effortless style makes comedy out of a world of violence and pain."Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall , 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 12 plates featuring black and white photographs of various American football plays. Also includes several black and white diagrams depicting different plays. 208 pages + 5 pages of index. A full explanation of the actual coaching techniques and system of plays Biggie Munn used in molding the Michigan State Multiple Offensive. He discusses the simple blocking rules that made this system possible, which is based on speed and maneuverability rather than brawn and power. In short, this book lets you get inside Biggie's brain to see how he created a high-scoring, winning football team. Review slip laid in.
Winston Salem NC, R.J. Reynolds Co., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "When pleasure is the goal", color art of couples at a football game, not credited. 8" X 11", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Football kickoff, art by Henry Heier. 10 1/2 X 13 1/2", very good. Mailing label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Football referee walking off penalty, art by Constantin Alajalov. 10 1/2 X 13 1/2", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1962, Book: Very Good, Color art of football players entering game with clean uniforms as muddy players exit. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1972, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of football coach along the sideline bench by Saxon. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star of the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for John McGraw's New York Giants. Even in a golden age of sports celebrities, he was one of a kind. But despite his colossal skills, Thorpe's life was a struggle against the odds. As a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, he encountered duplicitous authorities who turned away from him when their reputations were at risk. At Carlisle, he dealt with the racist assimilationist philosophy "Kill the Indian, Save the Man." His gold medals were unfairly rescinded because he had played minor league baseball. His later life was troubled by alcohol, broken marriages, and financial distress. He roamed from state to state and took bit parts in Hollywood, but even the film of his own life failed to improve his fortunes. But for all his travails, Thorpe did not succumb. The man survived, complications and all, and so did the myth. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 246 pages illustrated in b&w by Jay Hyde Barnum. Owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. First 20 pages have dog-ear crease to bottom corner. High school football adventures of four friends who break up when their school is closed and they're transferred to rival teams.
Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 240 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy of this history of the professional football team from it's founding by taxicab magnet Arther McBride to the championship season of 1964.
Softcover. Austin, University of Texas, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, B&W photos by Winningham. Text by Al Reinert. Commentary by Don Meredith. Paperback.
Hardcover. NY, Birch Lane Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 216 pages, b&w illustrations. Recounts the 1969 New York Jets' upset victory over the Baltimore Colts in Superbowl III, a game that established the viability of the American League, in a study featuring interviews with the Jets' championship players and coaches. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Glory Game recreates in breathtaking detail the 1958 National Football League Championship Game between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts, which many football fans feel was "The Greatest Game Ever Played." This first-hand, field level, "behind-the-helmet" account by ex-Giant Hall of Famer and longtime "Monday Night Football" broadcaster Frank Gifford brings back to life all the sights and sounds of the momentous contest that changed football forever, and offers vivid, indelible portraits of the legendary players--including Sam Huff, Andy Robustelli, Art Donovan, Lenny Moore, and Raymond Berry. The Giants-Colts clash of '58 was truly The Glory Game--and now readers can relive it in all its glory. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, b&w drawings by Bill Ogden. While collecting money for charity in front of a supermarket, two boys become inadvertently involved in a jewel theft. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice Hall, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An entertaining profile of the iconic New York Jets quarterback. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, brown cloth with a very worn, tape-repaired dust jacket. 325 pages, b&w illustrations. Book is clean, very good. The dust jacket, not so much.
Hardcover. New York, Zebra Books, First Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Grey & navy cloth board with silver titles to spine. Black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with light toning, very good condition. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Greenwich, CT, New York Graphic Society Ltd. & Wallynn, Inc., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, 2 volumes in slipcase, 224 pages (each volume), illustrated in b&w and color. Green covers with gilt lettering. Small tear to slipcase. Very clean, tight copies.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 238 pages. Introduction by E. K. Hall. Black & white illustrations. Corners a bit bumped. Spine sunned. Spine slightly cocked. Some markings to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Bobbs-Merrill , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 226 pages, b&w photos. An expose' of the World Football League: "The story of the men who manipulated bodies to make or prevent touchdowns and the men who manipulated the dream of owning a professional football team to make fortunes for themselves." It all ended with lies, financial sleights-of-hand, and bounced checks. Rare and informative look at "the complexities of creating a major sports empire." Dust with short closed tear, wrinkle to front flap. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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