Title Growing up on the gridiron : football, friendship, and the tragic life of Owen Thomas / Vicki Mayk.

Publication Info.

Boston : Beacon Press, [2020]

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction	796.332 MAYK	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	796.332 MAY	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	796.332 THOMAS	Check Shelf
Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction	796.332 MAY	Check Shelf

Description	188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	"Explores the experience of one young man and the concerns about CTE he helped to illuminate, and the cultural allure of football in America that keeps boys trying to make the team despite the dangers"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Thomas, Owen, 1988-2010.
	Chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
	Football -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Football players -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.
	Allentown (Pa.) -- Biography.
	SPORTS & RECREATION / General.
	Football players. (OCoLC)fst00931425
	Football -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00931398
	Pennsylvania. (OCoLC)fst01204598
	Pennsylvania -- Allentown. (OCoLC)fst01206509
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Online version: Mayk, Vicki. Growing up on the gridiron. Boston : Beacon Press, 2020 9780807021965 (DLC) 2020011376
ISBN	9780807021927 (hardcover)
	080702192X (hardcover)
	9780807021965 (electronic book)

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