Old Leather

Author : Chris Willis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461670179
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Leather written by Chris Willis and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very little has been documented about the early days of pro football and the pioneers who had a major influence in the history of the NFL. Chris Willis, head of the Research Library at NFL Films, seeks to address this neglect. In this collection of original and archival interviews, former players, owners, fans, family members and league officials provide a rare glimpse into the origins of professional football. Full of rich anecdotes, early stars such as Red Grange, Jim Thorpe, Dutch Clark, Glenn Presnell, and Pete Henry are brought back to the playing field. The interviews also reveal how small towns in Ohio such as Canton, Akron, Columbus, and Dayton came to host franchises, as the state became a major force in the founding and growth of the NFL. Old Leather provides the reader with a firsthand look at a period that has largely been ignored. It recalls what the era of professional football was like in the age of leather helmets, no television, dirt fields, small salaries and when playing for the love of the game was its own reward. This book will appeal not only to historians, sportswriters, and scholars, but also to die-hard fans and general history buffs who can never get enough of America's favorite sport. Contains 17 photographs of players, owners, and teams.

Author : Dan W. DeLuca
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574457
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Leather Man written by Dan W. DeLuca and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers that he would complete every 34 days, for almost six years. His circuit took him through at least 41 towns in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York, sleeping in caves, accepting food from townspeople, and speaking only in grunts and gestures along the way. What remains of the mysterious Leather Man today are the news clippings and photographs taken by the first-hand witnesses of this captivating individual. The Old Leather Man gathers the best of the early newspaper accounts of the Leather Man, and includes maps of his route, historic photographs of his shelters, the houses he was known to stop at along his way, and of the Leather Man himself. This history tracks the footsteps of the Leather Man and unravels the myths surrounding the man who made Connecticut’s caves his home. Ebook Edition Note: Six of the 111 illustrations have been redacted.

Author : Eldon L. Ham
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 0897335333
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Larceny and Old Leather written by Eldon L. Ham and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every baseball player from little league to the big leagues knows it is illegal to steal signs, yet every major league team assigns someone to do just that. Baseball thrives on trickery and deception. But as our oldest major team sport, its larcenous legacy goes much deeper than the field of play. In LARCENY AND OLD LEATHER: THE MISCHIEVOUS LEGACY OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, Eldon Ham—sports lawyer, professor, and author—traces the game’s lesser-known, roguish past. His wry chapters, filled with anecdotes and statistics, expose both the hidden and the obvious cheating occurring throughout baseball’s history, from corked bats and spitballs to betting and media hyperbole. Here is a book for both seasoned baseball fans and neophytes who’d like to get a look at the game that evolved into an industry. Babe Ruth, Sammy Sosa, Pete Rose, and many other lesser known players make their appearance in this fascinating history, as Ham seeks not only to chronicle the legacy of deception inherent within the game, but also to explore why it is, and how it is, that this deception is exactly what makes baseball the most endearing of American games.

Author : T. L. Haines
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781518837173
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museum of Antiquity written by T. L. Haines and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-16 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pompeii was in its full glory at the commencement of the Christian era. It was a city of wealth and refinement, with about 35,000 inhabitants, and beautifully located at the foot of Mount Vesuvius; it possessed all local advantages that the most refined taste could desire. Upon the verge of the sea, at the entrance of a fertile plain, on the bank of a navigable river, it united the conveniences of a commercial town with the security of a military station, and the romantic beauty of a spot celebrated in all ages for its pre-eminent loveliness. Its environs, even to the heights of Vesuvius, were covered with villas, and the coast, all the way to Naples, was so ornamented with gardens and villages, that the shores of the whole gulf appeared as one city.

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 596 pages
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Author : Samuel Wordsworth Bailey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
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Author : Theodore Gaillard Thomas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women written by Theodore Gaillard Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete and systematic treatise on the subject in its day.

Author : John Ruskin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
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Author : George Henry Lewes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
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