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Title: WHEN ALL THE WORLD WAS BROWNS TOWN by Terry Pluto ISBN: 0-684-82246-6 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 08 September, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Commendable
Comment: For me, the acid test of books like these is whether they manage to engage the neutral. Certainly Browns fans will enjoy this pleasant wallow in nostalgia from a time when football was still football.
I'm not a Browns fan but I found myself wallowing along with them. Pluto manages to capture the essence of the '64 season and yet not neglect the wider context. Fascinating stuff.
Rating: 5
Summary: GRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!
Comment: THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ IN MY ENTIRE LIFE
Rating: 4
Summary: Another strong effort by Pluto
Comment: Award-winning Akron Beacon Journal sportswriter Terry Pluto's latest work is When All The World Was Browns Town. It discusses the 1964 Cleveland Browns, the last Cleveland champion in one of the four major professional sports. Pluto is one of the most gifted sportswriters working today, and the calibre of the writing in this book, like The Curse of Rocky Colavito, is a fine example of his work. It is far better written than the average sports book, in part because Pluto, like David Halberstam, does a fine job of digging up how the people involved saw the events he discusses. One thing I did not care for about the book is that it takes too much of the season itself as a given. The season up until the playoffs only rates one chapter, for example. For those who grew up in Cleveland and remember the season, that's probably sufficient, but I would have liked more focus on it. It's also somewhat unorthodox and anticlimactic to have the title game discussion come in the middle of the book and not the end, and the brief discussion of the 1965 season comes off as whiny and does not give the outstanding '65 Packers the respect they are due. There's much more that is good than bad here, however. Pluto is masterful as usual at showing how different people saw the same events differently. He handles the discussion of Paul Brown well, and did a good job of getting Art Modell's perspective even as he is (rightly) critical of him for moving the Browns to Baltimore. In short, I think any football fan would enjoy this book, and those who remember the '64 Browns firsthand won't be able to put it down.
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Title: The Cleveland Browns : The Official Illustrated History by Ron Smith, Sporting News Publishing Company ISBN: 0892046252 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Distributed Products Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Kardiac Kids: The Story of the 1980 Cleveland Browns by Jonathan Knight ISBN: 0873387619 Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: On Being Brown: What It Means to Be a Cleveland Browns Fan by Scott Huler, Gray, Company Publishers ISBN: 1886228310 Publisher: Gray & Co., Publishers Pub. Date: 15 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: CURSE OF ROCKY COLAVITO: A LOVING LOOK AT A THIRTY-YEAR SLUMP by Terry Pluto ISBN: 0684804158 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 17 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: OUR TRIBE : A BASEBALL MEMOIR by Terry Pluto ISBN: 0684845059 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 16 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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