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• Commended for IndieFab awards (Sports) 2012

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Author:   Joe Holley ,  Peyton Manning
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.739kg
ISBN:  

9780292719859

ISBN 10:   029271985
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 October 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Peyton Manning Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction Chapter 1. Sam Baugh: The Beginning Chapter 2. Dutch Meyer: Short, Safe, Sure Chapter 3. 1934: The Baugh Era at TCU Begins Chapter 4. 1935: That Championship Season Chapter 5. George Preston Marshall: Football Impresario Chapter 6. Marshall's Redskins: Boston Born but D.C. Bound Chapter 7. 1936: Baugh's Senior Year at TCU Chapter 8. 1937: Slingin' Sam Chooses a Career Chapter 9. The 1937 Season: Baugh and the Redskins Debut in Washington Chapter 10. The 1937 NFL Championship: Slaying the Monsters of the Midway Chapter 11. Cardinal Sam? Baugh Tries the Major Leagues Chapter 12. The 1938 and 1939 Redskins: Giant Victims Chapter 13. The 1940 NFL Championship: The Monsters' Revenge Chapter 14. Go West, Young Sam: Hollywood Calling Chapter 15. The Newest Thing under Heaven: The Double Mountain Ranch Chapter 16. 1941: A Lackluster Season and a Day of Infamy Chapter 17. The 1942 Season: Avenging 73–0 Chapter 18. 1943: A Baugh Trifecta and Another Championship Lost Chapter 19. 1944 and 1945: Yet Another Missed Championship and the End of an Era Chapter 20. The 1946 and 1947 Seasons: The Dismal Years Begin Chapter 21. 1948–1952: Last Years with the Redskins Chapter 22. A Rancher Coaching Cowboys: Baugh at Hardin-Simmons University Chapter 23. Back to the Pros: Coaching the Titans and the Oilers Chapter 24. Ranching, Rodeoing, and Golfing: Sam in Retirement Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

Holley makes a strong presentation that Sammy Baugh is the greatest quarterback of all time, doing so in a factually entertaining manner. A good biography must be more than the story of one life. It should place its subject in the times of his life, and Holley has accomplished that task extremely well... Those who were with him as the game evolved are superbly portrayed by Holley, and that makes this biography an enjoyable book. - Stuart Shiffman, bookreporter.com

A valuable contribution to football history.--Alan Moores Booklist (09/01/2012)

Author Information

A longtime journalist who is currently politics editor for the Houston Chronicle, Joe Holley has been an award-winning editorial page editor and columnist for newspapers in San Diego and San Antonio, editor of the Texas Observer, frequent contributor to Texas Monthly, and staff writer for the Washington Post. His book My Mother’s Keeper: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up in the Shadow of Schizophrenia (coauthored with Tara Elgin Holley), won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for best book of nonfiction.

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