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Author Ruck, Rob, 1950- author.

Title Tropic of football : the long and perilous journey of Samoans to the NFL / Rob Ruck.

Publication Info. New York : New Press, [2018]
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  796.3309 RUC    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  796.332 RUC    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  796.332 RUCK    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  796.33 URC    Check Shelf
Description 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index.
Contents God's sweetest work -- The war and America come to Samoa -- Hawaiʻi : the North shore -- Al Lolotai, Charlie Ane, and Bob Apisa -- American Samoa in the 1960s -- Jesse Sapolu, Dick Tomey, and Faʻa Samoa -- Faʻa Kalifonia : Oceanside, California -- Kalifonia dreaming -- Back in Hawaiʻi : where football still matters -- David and Goliath -- The Samoan paradox.
Subject National Football League.
National Football League. (OCoLC)fst00547559
Football players -- United States -- Biography.
Football players -- American Samoa -- Biography.
American Samoa -- Biography.
Football players. (OCoLC)fst00931425
American Samoa. (OCoLC)fst01207148
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Biographies.
ISBN 9781620973370 (hc ; alk. paper)
1620973375
9781620973387 (ebook)
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