The First Star
Red Grange and the Barnstorming Tour That Launched the NFL
In The First Star, acclaimed sports writer Lars Anderson recounts the thrilling story of Harold Red Grange, the Galloping Ghost of the gridiron, and the wild barnstorming tour that earned professional football a place in the American sporting firmament.Red Grange's on-field exploits at the University of Illinois, so vividly depicted in print by the likes of Grantland Rice and Damon Runyan, had already earned him a stature equal to that of Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and other titans of American sports' golden age. Then, in November 1925, Grange made the fateful decision to parlay his fame in pro ball, at the time regarded as inferior to the pure…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-58836-894-2
- EAN: 9781588368942
- Produktnummer: 15715501
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'550 KB
- Abbildungen: 8-PP B/W PHOTO INSERT
Über den Autor
Lars Anderson is a Sports Illustrated staff writer and a weekly columnist for the magazine's website, SI.com. A graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Anderson is also the author of Carlisle vs. Army and The All Americans. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
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