The League
How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
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The League
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ナレーター：
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Daniel Thomas May
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著者：
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John Eisenberg
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The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America
The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing out $14 billion in annual revenue. But it was not always a success. In The League, John Eisenberg focuses on the pioneering sportsmen who kept the league alive in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, when its challenges were many and its survival was not guaranteed. At the time, college football, baseball, boxing, and horseracing dominated America's sports scene. Art Rooney, George Halas, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, and Bert Bell believed in pro football when few others did and ultimately succeeded only because at critical junctures each sacrificed the short-term success of his team for the longer-term good of the league. At once a history of a sport and a remarkable story of business ingenuity, The League is an essential listen for any fan of our true national pastime.
©2018 John Eisenberg (P)2018 Hachette Audio批評家のレビュー
"We have had some terrific owners since the first half of the 20th century but founders are founders, and this is their marvelous story - how they survived the Great Depression and a World War, scrambling to make their player payrolls from week to week. They did it through their incredible character, loyalty to each other, and their love of the game - and they built the greatest sports league in America." (Ernie Accorsi, former general manager of the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and New York Giants)
"Talk about a team of rivals ready to claw each other to death on Sundays and join forces to sell their game from Monday to Saturday, this is it! Halas, Mara, Marshall, Bell, and Rooney - this is their story. It is also the NFL's story. How the men and the league came though the ballyhoo of the 1920s, survived the Great Depression and World War II, and set the stage for football's ascendency as the national game is told by John Eisenberg with humor, heartbreak, and insight. Before the owners were billionaires, they were just a collection of scoundrels who believed in football and money." (Randy Roberts, coauthor of A Season in the Sun)
"In The League, John Eisenberg goes deep. He takes us to where it all started, in smoky backrooms, when the NFL - an American monolith now - was more David than Goliath. Carefully researched and astutely narrated, this is a fascinating time-transport trip that tells us as much about America as it does about football." (Gary M. Pomerantz, author of Their Life's Work)