The Resource The Galloping Ghost : Red Grange, an American football legend, Gary Andrew Poole
The Galloping Ghost : Red Grange, an American football legend, Gary Andrew Poole
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The item The Galloping Ghost : Red Grange, an American football legend, Gary Andrew Poole represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
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- Summary
- In the 1920s four athletes defined American sports: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Red Grange. They were the country's first athletic pantheon, and for a few brief years Red Grange outshone them all. This is the remarkable untold story of this fleet-footed college football player who inspired poetry, dazzled fans as he felled opponents on the field, and, with the help of an unscrupulous and utterly brilliant manager (the first real-life Jerry Maguire), helped launch and legitimize professional football, changing American sports forever. Biographer Poole draws on exhaustive research and interviews to evoke the golden age of sports in all its splendor and outrageousness. He transports readers from college football rallies to barnstorming tours, from the locker room to the White House to Hollywood, and he lays bare the fascinating and psychologically complex relationship between a star athlete and the nation's first real sports agent.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 320 p., [8] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780618691630
- Label
- The Galloping Ghost : Red Grange, an American football legend
- Title
- The Galloping Ghost
- Title remainder
- Red Grange, an American football legend
- Statement of responsibility
- Gary Andrew Poole
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the 1920s four athletes defined American sports: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Red Grange. They were the country's first athletic pantheon, and for a few brief years Red Grange outshone them all. This is the remarkable untold story of this fleet-footed college football player who inspired poetry, dazzled fans as he felled opponents on the field, and, with the help of an unscrupulous and utterly brilliant manager (the first real-life Jerry Maguire), helped launch and legitimize professional football, changing American sports forever. Biographer Poole draws on exhaustive research and interviews to evoke the golden age of sports in all its splendor and outrageousness. He transports readers from college football rallies to barnstorming tours, from the locker room to the White House to Hollywood, and he lays bare the fascinating and psychologically complex relationship between a star athlete and the nation's first real sports agent.--From publisher description
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Poole, Gary Andrew
- Dewey number
-
- 796.332092
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GV939.G7
- LC item number
- P66 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Grange, Red
- Football players
- Label
- The Galloping Ghost : Red Grange, an American football legend, Gary Andrew Poole
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-311) and index
- Control code
- ocn220420811
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 320 p., [8] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780618691630
- Lccn
- 2008014751
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- The Galloping Ghost : Red Grange, an American football legend, Gary Andrew Poole
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-311) and index
- Control code
- ocn220420811
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 320 p., [8] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780618691630
- Lccn
- 2008014751
- Other physical details
- ill.
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