The Game That Was
New York: World Publishing Company, 1970. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 294pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "Back in the days when teh grass was real and the only dome above the field was the sky, there were pro-football players who "played sixty minutes of a game, convinced that to be removed, even because of injury, amounted to personal disgrace." They frequently went without medical attention and sometimes without a paycheck. They were the men who established pro football and theirs was The Game That Was. To capture teh flavor, the spirit, and the nostalgia of those remembered but often unrecorded yesterdays, Myron Cope took a year away from his reporting for Sports Illustrated and made a sentimental journey to visit twenty men who passed, punted, and pummelled their way to football fame in those early days." Book Fair: water damaged, especially to rear board, rear of text block. toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight, water damage to boards and spine. Reading copy only. / DJ Fair: water damage, edge wear, not clipped. Item #2167
#02232.
Price: $8.00