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"C.C.""Cash and Carry"" Pyle made several fortunes representing professional football and tennis players--before losing everything and disappearing into history's dustbin. This work reevaluates Pyle's fast life and times while analyzing his extraordinary and enduring legacy. In 1925, Pyle rocked the sports world by inducing Red Grange to abandon the leafy confines of the University of Illinois for pro football, in essence thumbing his nose at protesting academics who insisted the move would irreparably harm both the college game and Grange's career. The book continues through all of Pyle's successes, and more than a few of his failures, including his signing of controversial French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen and his near-bankruptcy following losses incurred staging the short-lived annual Bunion Derby, as newspaper columnists dubbed the notorious 3,470-mile transcontinental footrace first held in 1928."

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Author:   Jim Reisler
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9780786438464

ISBN 10:   0786438460
Pages:   235
Publication Date:   10 December 2008
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface      Introduction      1. “How Would You Like to Make $100,000?”      2. “Three or Four Men and a Horse Rolled into One”      3. “One of the Finest Men I Have Ever Known”      4. “Football for All and All for Football”      5. “People Will Pay to See Anyone They Hate”      6. “The Most Stupendous Athletic Accomplishment in All History!”      7. “It Is a New Racket Altogether”      8. “Everyone Will Be Satisfied”      9. “More Ideas Than Most Men Came Up With in a Lifetime”      Epilogue: “Everything He Touched Turned to Gold”      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index     

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Jim Reisler has written books covering such topics as baseball, the deaf, and sportswriters. He lives in Hartsdale, New York.

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