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Also by Frank Deford:

Football, August 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Over Time, May 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Bliss, Remembered, August 2011
Paperback
Bliss, Remembered, July 2010
Hardcover
A Gift for Ron, November 2009
Hardcover
The Entitled, May 2007
Hardcover
The Old Ball Game, April 2006
Trade Size (reprint)

Also by John Schulian:

Football, August 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

FOOTBALL
By: Frank Deford, John Schulian

Great Writing About the National Sport

The Library of America
August 2014
On Sale: August 14, 2014
500 pages
ISBN: 159853307X
EAN: 9781598533071
Kindle: B00LQ26SLG
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

An All-Pro line-up of writers including Red Smith, Frank Deford, Jimmy Breslin, George Plimpton, Richard Price, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Charles Pierce, Michael Lewis, and Roy Blount Jr. tackle our most popular pastime:

Since football’s meteoric rise in the mid-twentieth century, the standout writers on the sport have gone behind and beyond the spectacle to reveal the complexity, the contradictions, and the deeper humanity at the heart of the game. Now, in a landmark collection, The Library of America brings together the very best of their work: gems of deadline reportage, incisive longform profiles of football’s storied figures, and autobiographical accounts by players and others close to the game. Celebrating the sport without shying away from its sometimes devastating personal and social costs, the forty-four pieces gathered here testify to football’s boundless capacity to generate outsized characters and memorable tales.

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