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Tough Luck - Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL (Paperback)
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Tough Luck - Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL (Paperback)
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In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the
one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-year-old Sid
Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school
football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his
father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for
a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own
brother-in-law. Amazingly, when Sid became a star at Columbia and a
Hall of Fame NFL quarterback in Chicago, all of it while Meyer
Luckman served 20-years-to-life in Sing Sing Prison, the connection
between sports celebrity son and mobster father was studiously
ignored by the press and ultimately overlooked for eight
decades.Tough Luck traces two simultaneous historical developments
through a single immigrant family in Depression-era New York: the
rise of the National Football League led by the dynastic Chicago
Bears, whose famed owner George Halas convinced Sid Luckman to help
him turn the sluggish game of pro football into America's favorite
pastime; and the demise--triggered by Meyer Luckman's crime and
initial coverup--of the Brooklyn labor rackets and Louis Lepke's
infamous organization Murder, Inc. Filled with colorful
characters--from ambitious district attorney-turned-governor Thomas
Dewey and legendary columnist Walter Winchell, to Sid Luckman's
rival quarterback "Slingin'" Sammy Baugh and pro football's unsung
intellectual genius Clark Shaughnessy; from the lethal Lepke and
hit men like "Tick Tock" Tannenbaum, to Sid's powerful post-career
friends Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio--Tough Luck memorably evokes
an era of vicious Brooklyn mobsters and undefeated Monsters of the
Midway, a time when the media kept their mouths shut and the
soft-spoken son of a murderer could become a beloved legend with a
hidden past.
General
Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2020 |
Authors: |
R.D. Rosen
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Dimensions: |
208 x 137 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-5736-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8021-5736-X |
Barcode: |
9780802157362 |
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