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The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire - Hardcover

Eisenberg, John

 
9780465048700: The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0465048706 ISBN 13: 9780465048700
Verlag: Basic Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America

The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing out $14 billion in annual revenue. But it was not always a success. In The League, John Eisenberg focuses on the pioneering sportsmen who kept the league alive in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, when its challenges were many and its survival was not guaranteed. At the time, college football, baseball, boxing, and horseracing dominated America's sports scene. Art Rooney, George Halas, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, and Bert Bell believed in pro football when few others did and ultimately succeeded only because at critical junctures each sacrificed the short-term success of his team for the longer-term good of the league.

At once a history of a sport and a remarkable story of business ingenuity, The League is an essential read for any fan of our true national pastime.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Eisenberg is the author of eleven books, including Rocket Men, and a former sportswriter for the Baltimore Sun. He also has written for Sports Illustrated and Smithsonian Magazine. Eisenberg lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465048706
ISBN 13 
9780465048700
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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