ESPN Breaker Boys Book
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In 1925, the Pottsville Maroons, a semipro football team from the heart of Pennsylvania coal country, joined the young National Football League. These hardscrabble miners, led by flamboyant player-coach Dick Rauch, did the unthinkable and dominated the NFL. Near the end of their first season, the Maroons faced the first place Chicago Cardinals in what many viewed as the championship game. They overcame a Windy City snowstorm to win 21-7 and ended the season with the best record in the league. When the public demanded it, they also played an exhibition game against an all star team from Notre Dame, which only a year earlier had won the college championship behind it's legendary Four Horsemen. The Maroons defeated the Irish 9-7, and the shoe that Charlie Berry used to kick the winning field goal was bronzed for eternity. By the following sping, however, the NFL championship was history. In February 1926, the league's owners, citing rules violations in the Notre Dame game, awarded the title to the Chicago Cardinals, though the team initially refused it. For 80 years, Pottsville fans have fought to have their championship restored. Breaker Boys tells the team's remarkable story. Written by David Fleming. Hardcover. 320 pages (with 16-page photo insert).
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Product #: 560352
Price: $24.95
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