When The Colts Belonged To Baltimore

Author : William Gildea
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801853791
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore written by William Gildea and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-10-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with feeling and insight, this is an affecting tribute to a team and a time etched in memory.

Author : Michael Olesker
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801890624
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colts' Baltimore written by Michael Olesker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic chronicle of 1958 recaptures the city of Baltimore's love affair with the the Baltimore Colts after the team defeated the New York Giants in a dramatic overtime game, bringing together a series of colorful anecdotes and reflections on notable figures and events of a time in a city on the eve of a cultural revolution.

Author : George Bozeka
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476634556
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1958 Baltimore Colts written by George Bozeka and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  The 1958 Baltimore Colts were one of the greatest teams ever in professional football. Owned by the controversial Carroll Rosenbloom and led by head coach Weeb Ewbank and six future Hall of Fame players—Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore, Jim Parker, Art Donovan and Gino Marchetti—they won the NFL title that season, defeating the New York Giants in the first sudden death championship game in NFL history. The Colts laid the foundation for the ultra-popular spectacle football would become with the American public. They were a talented group of players. Many had been rejected or underappreciated at various points in their careers though they were loved and respected by the blue collar fans of Baltimore. This book tells the complete story of the ‘58 Colts and the city’s love affair with the team.

Author : Ted Patterson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421412365
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football in Baltimore written by Ted Patterson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He includes the next chapters in this eventful story: the fight to bring pro football back to the city, the dawn of the Ravens era, and the building of a new football stadium in downtown Baltimore.

Author : Jack Gilden
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496210387
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collision of Wills written by Jack Gilden and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their seven years together, quarterback Johnny Unitas and coach Don Shula, kings of the fabled Baltimore Colts of the 1960s, created one of the most successful franchises in sports. Unitas and Shula had a higher winning percentage than Lombardi's Packers, but together they never won the championship. Baltimore lost the big game to the Browns in 1964 and to Joe Namath and the Jets in Super Bowl III--both in stunning upsets. The Colts' near misses in the Shula era were among the most confounding losses any sports franchise ever suffered. Rarely had a team in any league performed so well, over such an extended period, only to come up empty. The two men had a complex relationship stretching back to their time as young teammates competing for their professional lives. Their personal conflict mirrored their tumultuous times. As they elevated the brutal game of football, the world around them clashed about Vietnam, civil rights, and sex. Collision of Wills looks at the complicated relationship between Don Shula, the league's winningest coach of all time, and his star player Johnny Unitas, and how their secret animosity fueled the Colts in an era when their losses were as memorable as their victories.

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0760343306
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indianapolis Colts written by Lew Freedman and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""A complete illustrated history of the National Football League's Indianapolis Colts, including the team's early era in Baltimore"--Provided by publisher"--

Author : Ron Snyder
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476678413
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baltimore Stallions written by Ron Snyder and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baltimore is home to some of the greatest football players ever to step onto the gridiron. From the Colts' Johnny Unitas to the Ravens' Ray Lewis, Charm City has been blessed with multiple championship teams and plenty of Hall of Fame players. Between the Colts and Ravens, a brief but significant chapter of Baltimore football history was written--the Stallions. Formed in 1994, they posted the most successful single season in the history of the Canadian Football League, when in 1995 they became the only U.S. team to win the Grey Cup. By 1996 the Stallions were gone, undermined by the arrival of the Ravens and the overall failure of the CFL's U.S. expansion efforts. Drawing on original interviews with players, coaches, journalists and fans, this book recalls how the Stallions both captured the imagination and broke the hearts of Baltimore football fans in just 24 months.

Author : Vince Bagli
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780870334764
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sundays at 2:00 with the Baltimore Colts written by Vince Bagli and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty players, coaches, officials, and broadcasters for the legendary Baltimore Colts from 1947 to 1983 talk about their lives in professional football. For the first time in one book, Hall of Famers Gino Marchetti, John Unitas, Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore, Art Donovan, John Mackey, Jim Parker, Weeb Ewbank, and other Colts greats tell their inside stories of the unforgettable 1958 championship win over the New York Giants, the haunting Super Bowl loss to the Jets, and other highlights and low points of their lives in and out of football.Like the Dodgers and the people of Brooklyn, the Colts have a special relationship with Baltimoreans; general manager Ernie Accorsi says, This sounds corny, and maybe it happens in other places, but these guys played for the town.

Author : Jeffrey Marx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416584811
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Season of Life written by Jeffrey Marx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling inspirational book in which the author reunites with a childhood football hero, now a minister and coach, and witnesses a revelatory demonstration of the true meaning of manhood—Season of Life is a book that “should be required reading for every high school student in America and every parent as well” (Carl Lewis, Olympic champion). Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, love. Love? A former captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. Season of Life is his inspirational story as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jeffrey Marx, who was a ballboy for the Colts when he first met Ehrmann. Ehrmann now devotes his life to teaching young men a whole new meaning of masculinity. He teaches the boys at Gilman the precepts of his Building Men for Others program: Being a man means emphasizing relationships and having a cause bigger than yourself. It means accepting responsibility and leading courageously. It means that empathy, integrity, and living a life of service to others are more important than points on a scoreboard. Decades after he first met Ehrmann, Jeffrey Marx renewed their friendship and watched his childhood hero putting his principles into action. While chronicling a season with the Gilman Greyhounds, Marx witnessed the most extraordinary sports program he’d ever seen, where players say “I love you” to each other and coaches profess their love for their players. Off the field Marx sat with Ehrmann and absorbed life lessons that led him to reexamine his own unresolved relationship with his father. Season of Life is a book about what it means to be a man of substance and impact. It is a moving story that will resonate with athletes, coaches, parents—anyone struggling to make the right choices in life.

Author : Tom Callahan
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307533484
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johnny U written by Tom Callahan and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time “when men played football for something less than a living and something more than money,” John Unitas was the ultimate quarterback. Rejected by Notre Dame, discarded by the Pittsburgh Steelers, he started on a Pennsylvania sandlot making six dollars a game and ended as the most commanding presence in the National Football League, calling the critical plays and completing the crucial passes at the moment his sport came of age. Johnny U is the first authoritative biography of Unitas, based on hundreds of hours of interviews with teammates and opponents, coaches, family and friends. The depth of Tom Callahan’s research allows him to present something more than a biography, something approaching an oral history of a bygone sporting era. It was a time when players were paid a pittance and superstars painted houses and tiled floors in the off-season—when ex-soldiers and marines like Gino Marchetti, Art Donovan, and “Big Daddy” Lipscomb fell in behind a special field general in Baltimore. Few took more punishment than Unitas. His refusal to leave the field, even when savagely bloodied by opposing linemen, won his teammates’ respect. His insistence on taking the blame for others’ mistakes inspired their love. His encyclopedic football mind, in which he’d filed every play the Colts had ever run, was a wonder. In the seminal championship game of 1958, when Unitas led the Colts over the Giants in the NFL’s first sudden-death overtime, Sundays changed. John didn’t. As one teammate said, “It was one of the best things about him.”