City of Champions City of Champions

City of Champions

An American story of leather helmets, iron wills and the high school kids from Jersey who won it all

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    • 11,99 €

Beschreibung des Verlags

On Christmas night, 1939, two vastly different teams from Garfield, New Jersey, and Miami, Florida collided in the historic Orange Bowl to decide the National Sports Foundation's national championship. Garfield's Boilermakers were children of immigrants drawn to the industrial city's churning factories. Miami's Stingarees were from families from all over the country settling in one of America's most promising and thriving cities.

In City of Champions, Hank Gola, a veteran and award-winning football writer, unveils this long-forgotten game. Gola mines stories of the towns and the lives of the players and coaches—detailing the grit (and wild strokes of fortune) that led up to a Garfield victory, stunning the football world. Gola also describes how this game mirrored America, revealing some of the most pressing cultural, economic and socio-political issues of the day.

GENRE
Geschichte
ERSCHIENEN
2018
26. November
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
465
Seiten
VERLAG
Tatra Press
GRÖSSE
10,7
 MB

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