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Red Grange: The Life and Legacy of the NFL's First Superstar
By Willis, Chris
- ISBN
- 9781538101940 9781538101957
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
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Reviewed on August 1, 2019 | One Hundred Years of Grit
In the 1920s, Red Grange (1903–91) was a spectacular college football player and a peer of the larger-than-life sports stars of that flashy decade, including Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and Bill Tilden. They were the crest of the first wave of sports marketing, and Grange, with his agent C.C. "Cash and Carry" Pyle, may have made more money out of his celebrity than any of them, while establis...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
