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Playing through the whistle : steel, football, and an American town / S.L. Price.
Van Pelt Library GV959.53.A485 P75 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, S. L. (Scott L.), 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Football--Pennsylvania--Aliquippa--History.
- Football.
- Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Aliquippa--History.
- Steel industry and trade.
- Iron and steel workers--Pennsylvania--Aliquippa--History.
- Iron and steel workers.
- History.
- Aliquippa (Pa.)--History.
- Aliquippa (Pa.).
- Pennsylvania--Aliquippa.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 550 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "A Sports Illustrated senior writer presents a moving epic of football in industrial America, tracing the story of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania's now-shuttered steel mill, and its legendary high school football team,"--NoveList.
- Contents:
- The Red and the Black
- Little Hell
- Free men
- Bootstraps
- A war game
- Father backs up
- Crossfire
- Mother's Oats
- Mr. Lucky
- Halls of anger
- The crack
- Darkness on the edge
- You-know-who
- Up in smoke
- Mauling Apollo
- Shiny things
- Last ones laughing
- When the world opens
- Iron buttons
- Family matters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-536) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802125644 :
- 0802125646
- OCLC:
- 939426739
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