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Connecticut Gridiron
- Football Minor Leaguers of the 1960s and 1970s
Engelsk Paperback
Connecticut Gridiron
- Football Minor Leaguers of the 1960s and 1970s
Engelsk Paperback

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This narrative history of minor league football teams in Connecticut in the 1960s and 1970s is based on extensive newspaper and periodical research and interviews with nearly 70 former players, broadcasters and journalists. Only a few players--like Marv Hubbard, Lou Piccone and Bob Tucker--made it to the NFL, but many more played for as little as $25 per game in their quest to make it big or just have fun. Wealthy men like Pete Savin and Frank D''Addario owned teams in Hartford and Bridgeport.

In the days before cable television saturated the media with live sports, small town fans turned out to support their local heroes, often men who worked on construction crews during the week and stopped by the diner Sunday morning to talk football. Now in their 60s, 70s and 80s, these men share their stories of a simpler era; the good times, like the Hartford Knights'' 1968 ACFL championship season, and the long bus rides and missed paydays that were as much a part of minor league ball as first downs and interceptions.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
388
ISBN-13:
9780786478330
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786478330
Udg. Dato:
29 okt 2014
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
29 okt 2014
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