ISBN10: 0252023846, ISBN13: 9780252023842, [publisher: University of Illinois Press 1999-06-30] Hardcover some shelf wear with some shading to the outer edge of pages with some minor knocking to edge of dust cover but content good throughout.
[Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]

University of North Texas Press. Used; Very Good. University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL, Date: 1999. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket protected by BroDart clear mylar cover. Flat signed by Carroll. Before the Super Bowl, before "Monday Night Football", even before the NFL, there was Red Grange. Catapulted into the public eye in 1924 by scoring four touchdowns in twelve minutes for the University of Illinois, the "Galloping Ghost" went on to a trailblazing career as a professional player, Hollywood football idol, and broadcaster. He ranked with Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey in the 1920s as the most heralded figures in America's "golden age of sport", and when "Sports Illustrated" did a special issue in 1991 on the greatest moments in sports, Grange was selected for the cover. Grange's star rose in tandem with that of the sport itself. His spectacular performance as a college player coincided with football's evolution into a rallying point of university life, undergirded by post-World War I money, cars, roads, stadiums, and mass media. With a natural talent and down-home image that helped legitimize professional football, Grange became one of the first athlete-heroes and the first major sports figure to serve as a play-by-play broadcast commentator. John Carroll depicts the career of this softspoken pioneer who helped lift pro football above its reputation as "a dirty ...

University of North Texas Press 1999 HARDCOVER Used; Very Good University of North Texas Press. Used; Very Good. University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL, 1999. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket protected by BroDart clear mylar cover. Flat signed by Carroll. Before the Super Bowl, before "Monday Night Football", even before the NFL, there was Red Grange. Catapulted into the public eye in 1924 by scoring four touchdowns in twelve minutes for the University of Illinois, the "Galloping Ghost" went on to a trailblazing career as a professional player, Hollywood football idol, and broadcaster. He ranked with Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey in the 1920s as the most heralded figures in America's "golden age of sport", and when "Sports Illustrated" did a special issue in 1991 on the greatest moments in sports, Grange was selected for the cover. Grange's star rose in tandem with that of the sport itself. His spectacular performance as a college player coincided with football's evolution into a rallying point of university life, undergirded by post-World War I money, cars, roads, stadiums, and mass media. With a natural talent and down-home image that helped legitimize professional football, Grange became one of the first athlete-heroes and the first major sports figure to serve as a play-by-play broadcast commentator. John Carroll depicts the career of this softspoken pioneer who helped lift pro football above its reputation as "a dirty ...

Illinois: University of Illinois Press. Date: 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0252023846 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light shelfwear on rear panel. ; 6 X 1.3 X 9 inches; 296 pages . 1999. University of Illinois Press ISBN 0252023846 9780252023842 [US]