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John Eisenberg Cotton Bowl Days : Growing up with Dallas and the Cowboys in the 1960s
Simon & Schuster 0684831201 / 9780684831206 Hardcover Fair
0684831201 Ex-library condition with usual stamps, stickers and bar codes is main reason for 'acceptable' rating of condition. Hardcover with dust jacket in library mylar cover, 300 pages, Simon and Schuster publishers, 1997 copyright, ISBN: 0684831201. Title: Cotton Bowl Days, author: John Eisenberg. Usually ships with delivery confirmation. Where available, a photo of the actual cover has been provided instead of a stock photo. Condition description: this is an ex-library book, with mylar covers and usual markings and stickers, the bar code on the front cover is crossed through in black magic marker, on the other hand, it is durably bound and very lightly used for a library book and has many years of life left in it. From the introduction end flap: For a young boy growing up in Dallas in the 1960s, the NFL's Cowboys loomed larger than life. It mattered little that these were not the perennial Super Bowl contenders of Roger Staubach and Randy White, nor the celebrity-driven assemblage of Aikman, Emmitt, and Irvin, nor even the late-'60s model with Bob Hayes, Dan Reeves, and Mel Renfro. John Eisenberg's heroes were men of humbler accomplishment, but they brought major-league pro sports to Texas to stay for the first time, and he lived for his family's Sunday excursions to Fair Park and its ancient concrete stadium, the Cotton Bowl. A third-generation Dallasite, Eisenberg grew up in tandem with the city and its team. As the Cowboys developed slowly while they learned the principles of Tom Landry's Flex defense and multiple set offense, Eisenberg watched with his father, grandfather, uncles, and cousins from their regular seats in section 7, seats purchased by his grandfather, an inveterate booster of his town and its teams. With the love of sports over?coming the differences in generations, John, the youngest member of the regular group, sat next to Louis Tobian ('Pop'), the oldest, who never tired of showing off his grandson's knowledge of Cowboys lore. *
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9.97 USD
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