Striking Gridiron : a town's pride and a team's shot at glory during the biggest strike in American history / Greg Nichols.
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TextEdition: First editionDescription: xii, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN: 9781250039859 (hbk.); 1250039851 (hbk.)Subject(s): Strikes and lockouts -- Pennsylvania -- Braddock -- History -- 20th century | Football -- Pennsylvania -- Braddock -- History -- 20th century | SPORTS & RECREATION / FootballDDC classification: 796.332/620974885 LOC classification: HD5326.P5 | N53 2014Other classification: SPO015000 Online resources: Cover image Summary: "In the summer of 1959, most of the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania-- along with half a million steel workers around the country-- went on strike in the longest labor stoppage in American history. With no paychecks coming in, the families of Braddock looked to its football team for inspiration. The Braddock Tigers had played for five amazing seasons, a total of 45 games, without a single loss. Heading into the fall of '59, this team from just outside Pittsburgh, whose games members of the Steelers would drop by to watch, needed just eight victories to break the national record for consecutive wins. Sports Illustrated and other media descended upon the banks of the Monongahela River to profile the team and its revered head coach, future Hall of Famer Chuck Klausing, who molded his boys into winners while helping to effect the racial integration of his squad. While the townspeople bet their last dollars on the Tigers, young black players like Ray Henderson hoped that the record would be a ticket to college and spare them from life in the mills alongside their fathers. In Striking Gridiron, author Greg Nichols recounts every detail of Braddock's incredible sixth, undefeated season-- from the brutal weeks of summer training camp to the season's final play that defined the team's legacy." --
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| 796.323/MALLOZZI Basketball : | 796.323/TAYLOR The rivalry : | 796.332/LEU Iron men : | 796.332/NICHOLS Striking Gridiron : | 796.332/PERKINS The real all Americans : the team that changed a game, a people, a nation / | 796.334/ROONEY Wayne Rooney: My decade in the Premier League./ | 796.342092/ASH Days of grace : |
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"In the summer of 1959, most of the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania-- along with half a million steel workers around the country-- went on strike in the longest labor stoppage in American history. With no paychecks coming in, the families of Braddock looked to its football team for inspiration. The Braddock Tigers had played for five amazing seasons, a total of 45 games, without a single loss. Heading into the fall of '59, this team from just outside Pittsburgh, whose games members of the Steelers would drop by to watch, needed just eight victories to break the national record for consecutive wins. Sports Illustrated and other media descended upon the banks of the Monongahela River to profile the team and its revered head coach, future Hall of Famer Chuck Klausing, who molded his boys into winners while helping to effect the racial integration of his squad. While the townspeople bet their last dollars on the Tigers, young black players like Ray Henderson hoped that the record would be a ticket to college and spare them from life in the mills alongside their fathers. In Striking Gridiron, author Greg Nichols recounts every detail of Braddock's incredible sixth, undefeated season-- from the brutal weeks of summer training camp to the season's final play that defined the team's legacy." --
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