Tough luck : Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the rise of the modern NFL
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Published
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019.
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
796.332 ROSEN
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796.332 ROSEN
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Published
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (283-293) and index.
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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. -- from Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Rosen, R. D. (2019). Tough luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the rise of the modern NFL (First edition.). Atlantic Monthly Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rosen, Richard Dean, 1949-. 2019. Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL. Atlantic Monthly Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rosen, Richard Dean, 1949-. Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Rosen, Richard Dean. Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL First edition., Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019.
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