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Title: Pigskin: The Early Years of Pro Football by Robert W. Peterson ISBN: 0-19-511913-4 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)
Rating: 2
Summary: Pigskin lacks the moves to score a touchdown
Comment: While this book contains lots of interesting historical facts and little known tidbits of information on pro football's rise in America, it is written in such a way as to have readers wishing the sport had died at birth.
As I said above, there is very good information on the sport here, but once I read the particular nugget I don't need it given to me again on the next page, or the next, or the next. The author is very repetative and some of the chapters go on forever with really no new facts given.
The second thing you might notice is that the author likes to play with seldom used "big words" from the English language. Not a problem if used in moderation, but here they are so frequent as to disrupt the flow of the story and makes the book difficult to read.
The final penalty here is the bad editing. There are either numerous mispellings, or he is using words I never learned in school. There are also several spots in the book where [] appear around letters or whole words. I'm not sure what those are there for, but someone must have thought they needed to be there I guess. Alo, many of the chapters are badly arranged, bits of story seemingly thrown in wherever there was room.
In conclusion I found this book hard to read and only finished it because i'm a die-hard football fan. Makes a good read if you're an insomniac though.
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Title: When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL by Joe Ziemba ISBN: 1572433175 Publisher: Triumph Books Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football (Sport and Society) by John M. Carroll ISBN: 0252023846 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Monster of the Midway: Bronko Nagurski, the 1943 Chicago Bears, and the Greatest Comeback Ever by Jim Dent ISBN: 0312308671 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Michael Oriard, Alan Trachtenberg ISBN: 0807820830 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University : A University President's Perspective by James J. Duderstadt ISBN: 0472089439 Publisher: UMP Pub. Date: 05 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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