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Tough Luck R D Rosen

SKU: BELL-43811422

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Publisher: Grove Atlantic

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 8.66 MB

Author: R. D. Rosen

ISBN: 9780802147110, 0802147119

Language: English

Year: 2019

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Tough Luck R D Rosen by R. D. Rosen 9780802147110, 0802147119 instant download after payment.

In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, when Sid became a star at Columbia and a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback in Chicago, all of it while Meyer Luckman served 20-years-to-life in Sing Sing Prison, the connection between sports celebrity son and mobster father was studiously ignored by the press and ultimately overlooked for eight decades.

Tough Luck traces two simultaneous historical developments through a single immigrant family in Depression-era New York: the rise of the National Football League led by the dynastic Chicago Bears, whose famed owner George Halas convinced Sid Luckman to help him turn the...