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Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Description
x, 318 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A unique and powerful personal tale about the great joy and devastating price of playing professional football, by a legendary former NFL linebacker One of the greatest linebackers to ever play professional football, Harry Carson built a reputation during his 13 years in the NFL as a fearsome, physical and passionate player who would give everything he had to win. Whether violently tackling running backs, engaging blockers with reckless abandon or...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Campbell was a force in American football, winning a state championship in high school, rushing his way to a Heisman trophy for the University of Texas, and earning MVP as he took the Houston Oilers to the brink of the Super Bowl. An exhilarating blend of biography and history, this work chronicles the challenges and sacrifices one supremely gifted athlete faced.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An award-winning narrative and documentary filmmaker and daughter of a football legend retraces her father's journey from the segregated South to Michigan State during the peak of the civil rights movement and his journey as an NFL pioneer after the 1967 draft.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
256 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Idealist is a complete portrait of Jack Trice, an Iowa State football player who suffered a fatal injury during a game in 1923. Jack was the son of a former Buffalo Soldier who became a high school football standout in Ohio and embarked on his college career hoping to emulate fellow Iowa State University alum George Washington Carver. It is also the story of those who fought for his legacy across generations.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawing on 720 original interviews, a New York Times best-selling sportswriter captures as never before the elusive truth about the greatest athlete of all time who took the world by storm from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s--and then, almost overnight, disappeared.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Unlike baseball, football did not have a thunderclap moment like the arrival of Jackie Robinson at Ebbets Field. Instead, the game started out as the most egalitarian of American sports, reversed course during the Great Depression when the NFL purged its few black players and then slowly reintegrated after World War II. Even then, the sport needed another three decades before owners, coaches and fans looked at players based on their ability, rather...
16) Ezekiel Elliott
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This in-depth look at Ezekiel Elliot covers his childhood, his time playing football at Ohio State University, and the fitness and nutrition routines that make him an unstoppable running back"--
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Spike Lee directs this moving portrait of Jim Brown and his days in the spotlight, first making football history as one of the 20th century's greatest athletes, and later as the star of numerous Hollywood features.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
203 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This riveting story of a top-earning NFL center and his family who walked away from it all to follow God's call to alleviate hunger as farmers--a life they knew absolutely nothing about--illustrates the sacrifice and ultimate reward of obedience to our heavenly Father even when it doesn't make earthly sense"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On August 14, 2016, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a protest when he refused to stand for the national anthem. He wanted to make a statement about the oppression of people of color in the United States after he had spent a summer speaking out against police brutality. After playing professional football for six seasons, that would become Colin Kaepernick's last season in the NFL, but he would go on to become one of the most prominent activists...
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