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As one of the twelve founding Football League clubs in 1888/89,
Everton Football Club has a long, proud history. Having played more
top-flight League games than any other English team, the Toffees
have won the League championship nine times - the fourth best
record of any team. The first occasion was in the third season of
League football, 1890/91 when the Blues became the first club from
Liverpool to collect the League championship trophy from their then
base, Anfield. In achieving their success, Everton knocked the
winners of the first two championships, the Invincibles of Preston
North End, off their throne. But how did they do it? Who were the
players in this momentous season, what sort of football did they
play and who did they beat?
Notre Dame's rallying cry was once "Win one for the Gipper." The
football series with Army that spawned that memorable slogan has
long since faded into history, but every year the Irish continue to
face another storied rival to test their mettle. The annual
tradition of Notre Dame versus USC lives on. Rockne and Jones tells
the story of how the battle with the Trojans began at the height of
the turbulent years after WWI that changed the world forever. The
Roaring Twenties are remembered as a bygone era of mobsters,
flappers, speakeasies, and romantic silent movie stars. It was also
the golden age of sports, when stars like Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey,
and a horse named Man o' War dominated the headlines. Football fans
went crazy for the college game at a time when the NFL was in its
infancy. No star shined brighter in those days than Knute Rockne,
the legendary coach at Notre Dame. Every great champion needs a
foil, and Rockne's was a coach named Howard Harding Jones. USC's
Jones was Rockne's opposite in every way. Jones was quiet where
Rockne was glib and outspoken, private where Rockne was a man about
town, but the two men shared a passion for football that led them
on a collision course. The result was the greatest football rivalry
of the age-Notre Dame versus USC. The lives of these two coaches,
their triumphs and tragedies, and the whole story of how the Irish
and the Trojans came to be the greatest intersectional foes in all
of college football is retold in exhaustive detail for the first
time. The story sprawls from the fjords of Norway to the playing
fields of America, from clashes with the Ku Klux Klan on the
streets of South Bend and the gang wars of Chicago to the glamour
of Hollywood. Those wild days of Rockne's Ramblers and Jones's
Thundering Herd live again on the pages of Rockne and Jones.
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC was founded in 1877 as St Luke's
Football Club, and became one of the founding members of the
Football League. The Origins of Wolverhampton Wanderers tells the
story of the formative years of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, with
particular reference to the lives and actions of the principal
founders of the club: John Brant Brodie, John Baynton, and Jack
Addenbrooke. This is the story of quite ordinary young men from the
backstreets of Wolverhampton who created something truly
extraordinary, famous and enduring - the Wolves! The early years
were dramatic and often turbulent, and the fledgling club nearly
foundered on more than one occasion, but thanks to the efforts of
the founders and supporters, it came through and survived. The
Origins of Wolverhampton Wanderers deals with events and people
well outside living memory, showing an appreciation of their
contribution to the history and development of this famous old
club, and it does much to add to our knowledge of the history of
Wolverhampton Wanderers.
More than 300 ballplayers have spent time with both the Boston Red
Sox and the New York Yankees, opposing teams in one of the most
intense rivalries in sports. This book examines the century long
antagonism between the two clubs, chronicling their storied pasts
and their evolution during the 20th century. Several what-ifs are
considered: what if Babe Ruth had never been traded from the Red
Sox to the Yankees? What if the clubs had swapped Joe DiMaggio for
Ted Williams, as was proposed by the owners of both teams? What if
Alex Rodriguez had gone to Boston, as was originally intended,
rather than to New York? The debate as to which team has made out
better with shared players is explored.
The Local Boys by Joe and Jack Heffron tells the stories of men who
achieved the boyhood dream of playing for the hometown team. From
Ethan Allen to Don Zimmer, they're all here, including Charlie
"Bushel Basket" Gould, who played on the first team in 1869 to
Junior Griffey, soon to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Alongside
big-name stars like Dave Parker and Buddy Bell, fans will find
those like Eddie Hunter, who played only one inning in 1933, never
got to bat, and never fielded a ball. Every player receives a one-
or two-page profile, many of which are based on original interviews
with the players or surviving family members. Going beyond
statistics, each profile brings the player to life through stories
that have never before been told in print. An indispensible look at
Cincinnati baseball history, The Local Boys makes an ideal gift for
any Reds fan.
The Ohio State Buckeyes have been a powerhouse in college football
for decades, with numerous national championships and NFL draftees
to their credit. With such a successful history, it s no wonder
that the passion for Ohio State football has reached a level of
devotion that has religious overtones. "Saint Woody: The History
and Fanaticism of Ohio State Football" is a Bill Bryson style look
at Ohio State football and the spiritual fanaticism that surrounds
it. Bob Hunter tracks the development of this powerhouse program
from its earliest days to its heights under Woody Hayes, the de
facto king of Ohio State football. Hayes led the team to three
national championships and a record of 205-61-10 over a
twenty-eight-year period and was at the heart of the Ten-Year War,
a particularly intense period in the infamous Ohio State Michigan
rivalry. Hunter also looks at the present-day state of Buckeye
football and the team s scarlet-and-gray-clad followers, as well as
its legion of detractors, who voted Ohio State as the most hated
college team in a nationwide survey. America loves and hates a
winner.Irreverent, honest, insightful, and always entertaining,
"Saint Woody" will appeal to anyone whose spirit has ever lifted
when hearing that famous cry Go Bucks
Fowler: My Autobiography is a personal and honest account of a
phenomenal life in football by goal-poacher Robbie Fowler.
Pronounced as the greatest goal scoring talent since Jimmy Greaves,
seventeen-year old Robbie Fowler was immediately catapulted to fame
and fortune. The thin, baby-faced Toxteth lad, who had trampled the
same streets as the rioters, was now a millionaire, an idol and
inspiration to every kid who kicked a football. Yet his incredible
potential was never quite realized. Injuries and persistent rumours
of drug abuse and depression meant that though Fowler remains one
of the most celebrated of Premiership stars, he never became the
world-beater so many predicted. This is a fascinating and
unbelievably frank insight into the beautiful game, taking us
behind the closed doors of professional football to expose what
really happens at both club and international level. This is a
truthful and candid account of an incredible career, examining not
just the records and the glory, but the low points and the miseries
of a footballing life that many people now believe somewhere,
somehow went wrong. Brilliance and controversy have stalked Robbie
Fowler from his five goal performance in only his second full game
for Liverpool, to his snorting of the touchline in the Merseyside
derby. In this utterly compelling autobiography, Robbie Fowler
looks back on what was, what wasn't and what might have been. This
is the story of one of the game's true icons, and the story of the
modern game itself.
Winning eighteen league championships, four European Cups, a
Champions League title, seven FA Cups and eight League Cups makes
Liverpool Football Club one of the most successful football clubs
in England. This is the football club touched by the greatest
managers, the club, indeed, where the cult of the manager began.
Liverpool had been great before but not for some time until Billy
Shankly arrived, ordaining it the original People's Club because of
the passion of its supporters. Liverpool proceeded to dominate the
European scene under Bob Paisley, the quietly ruthless genius.
Kenny Dalglish - considered the club's greatest player - later
turned Liverpool into the country's most stylish team when he took
charge of the team. Dalglish might stand in his own league but many
other greats have touched the famous This is Anfield sign wearing
Liverpool red: from Ian Callaghan, the club's record appearance
holder, to Phil Neal, the club's most decorated player, to Graeme
Souness and Steven Gerrard, arguably Liverpool's most iconic
captains. It was often thought the beauty of Liverpool's brilliance
was the simplicity behind it and yet, few rivals were able to crack
the Liverpool code.As Liverpool enters its 125th year, The Red
Journey: An Oral History of Liverpool Football Club tells the story
of the club through the voices of the people who made the
institution one of the most revered in football.
In the last years of the nineteenth century an American tobacco
company, Allen and Ginter, began inserting plain cards called
'stiffeners' into packets of cigarettes to protect their products
from being crushed. What seemed at the time like an inconsequential
product development was swiftly exploited for commercial purposes:
to advertise other products and then illustrate the cards with
popular personalities. These collectables swiftly became a
phenomenon and crossed to the other side of the Atlantic. These
cards were decorated by many different subjects: politicians,
actors, writers, poets and sporting personalities, most
significantly footballers. A craze that lasted for more than half a
century was born. In an era before the widespread use of
photography in print media and when the game was seldom captured by
motion film, cigarette cards were often the most enduring portrayal
of football's stars in the early twentieth century. Small boys
would collect these cards from family and friends. Teams would be
formed and, in a fore- runner of today's fantasy football games,
the cards would be swapped and traded to see who could assemble the
best team.Today they provide a compelling insight into a bygone
era. Now, in The Redmen of Liverpool FC, Rowlands has shared his
passion. Featuring every single Liverpool player featured in this
medium, along with biographical details and contextual notes,
Rowlands tells the story of the cigarette card craze. Presented in
full colour, Redmen is a richly illustrated and deeply evocative
window into one of football's bygone eras and an essential
reference for every Liverpool fan.
Between 2008 and 2012, everything changed for Celtic and the
supporters. Everything changed for the Author as well. The Internet
Bampots were on the rise, going after songs, Referees and an old
enemy... Read how Referees thought about Celtic straight from the
mouth of a Grade 1 Ref and marvel at how the Internet Bampots
refused to take it any more. There are also stories of seedy trips
to Atlantic City, mixing with the Mafia and breakfast with The
Latin Kings. Well, it is a Paul Larkin book after all...
Perhaps even more than the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots
are the team of the entire northeast from Rhode Island to Canada.
Here, sports historian Robert W. Cohen ranks the 50 best players to
ever take the field for the Patriots. Who can forget Wes Welker,
Troy Brown, Jim Nance, Ted Bruschi, and Tom Brady. They're all here
in this fascinating collection of bios, stats, quotes from opposing
players and former teammates, photographs, and recaps of memorable
performances and seasons. This book is a must-read not only for
Patriots fans, but for all fans of professional football.
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