Rob Ruck, Maggie Jones Patterson, Michael P Weber

Rooney

A Sporting Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Rob Ruck is a senior lecturer of history at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of The Tropic of Baseball, available in a Bison Books edition. Maggie Jones Patterson is an associate professor of journalism at Duquesne University and coauthor of Behind the Lines: Case Studies in Investigative Reporting. Michael P. Weber (1936¿2001) is the author of Don¿t Call Me Boss: David L. Lawrence, Pittsburgh¿s Renaissance Mayor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 149mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 971g
• ISBN-13: 9780803237674
• ISBN-10: 0803237677
• Artikelnr.: 33389182

Autorenporträt

Rob Ruck is a senior lecturer of history at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of The Tropic of Baseball, available in a Bison Books edition. Maggie Jones Patterson is an associate professor of journalism at Duquesne University and coauthor of Behind the Lines: Case Studies in Investigative Reporting. Michael P. Weber (1936-2001) is the author of Don't Call Me Boss: David L. Lawrence, Pittsburgh's Renaissance Mayor.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Arthur J. Rooney's Family Tree
1. Coming to Pittsburgh
2. The Young Athlete: The Northside
3. On Life's Learning Fields: 1922-28
4. Dreams, Depression, and Commitment: 1929-33
5. Pittsburgh Joins the NFL: 1933-36
6. Rooney's Ride: 1937
7. Between the Races and the Fights: 1937-38
8. Returning to the Ring: 1939-41
9. Season of Reckoning: 1940-41
10. The World at War: 1941-45
11. The Sutherland Years: 1946-47
12. Shamrock Farm
13. Same Old Steelers: 1948-56
14. Buddy, Bobby, and Bert: 1957-59
15. Renaissance for Pittsburgh, Not the Steelers: 1960-64
16. Not the Same Old Steelers--Worse: 1965-68
17. Changing History: 1970-71
18. 1972
19. Football's Promised Land: 1973-74
20. Super Redux: 1975
21. City of Champions: 1976-79
22. The Fourth Quarter: 1980-88
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"Rooney: A Sporting Life" is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn about a true American success story in sports. This book fully captures the early life of Art Rooney Sr., an American icon who is known for the legacy he left in the Steelers but isn't known as well for his amazing accomplishments in racing and as an athlete. The Chief is to sports what Seabiscuit is to horse racing, and this book captures the man and the legend."---John Clayton, ESPN "Art Rooney personified Pittsburgh as much as any person can epitomize a city. His weathered face, hard accent, love of gambling, and enormous heart captured the very soul of the three-rivers city. It is hard---hell, impossible for any person not living in Dallas---not to love Rooney. And it is impossible not to love this biography of Rooney. It is true to Rooney and Pittsburgh. Reading it, I could feel the pre-Renaissance grit of the steel town."---Randy W. Roberts, Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue University and coeditor of "One for the Thumb: The New Steelers Reader", 2nd edition