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050 00 GV939.L83|bR67 2019
082 00 796.332092|aB|223
100 1 Rosen, Richard Dean,|d1949-|eauthor.
245 10 Tough luck :|bSid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the rise of
the modern NFL /|cR. D. Rosen.
250 First edition.
264 1 New York :|bAtlantic Monthly Press,|c[2019]
300 x, 306 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 "In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares
to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As
eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New
York City for his football exploits at Erasmus Hall High
School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making
headlines in the same papers for a very different reason:
the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly,
after Sid became a star at Columbia and then led the
Chicago Bears to multiple NFL championships, all while
Meyer wasted away in Sing Sing, the connection between
sports celebrity son and mobster father was ignored by the
press and then overlooked for eight decades. Tough Luck
traces two historic developments connected by a single
immigrant family in Depression-era New York: the rise of
the National Football League through the dynastic Chicago
Bears, whose famed owner George Halas convinced Sid
Luckman to help him turn the sluggish game of pro football
into America's favorite pastime; and the demise-triggered
by Meyer Luckman's crime-of the Brooklyn labor rackets and
of Louis Lepke's infamous organization Murder Inc. Filled
with colorful characters-from ambitious district attorney
turned governor Thomas Dewey and legendary columnist
Walter Winchell, to Sid Luckman's rival quarterback
"Slingin'" Sammy Baugh; from hit men like "Tick Tock"
Tannenbaum, to Sid's powerful post-career friends Frank
Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio-Tough Luck unforgettably evokes
an era of vicious Brooklyn mobsters and undefeated
Monsters of the Midway, a time when the media kept their
mouths shut and the soft-spoken son of a murderer could
become a beloved Hall of Fame legend with a hidden past"--
|cProvided by publisher.
600 10 Luckman, Sid.
610 20 National Football League|xHistory.
610 20 Chicago Bears (Football team)|xHistory.
650 0 Football players|zIllinois|zChicago|vBiography.
650 0 Organized crime|zUnited States|xHistory.
650 0 Immigrant families|zIllinois|zChicago.
650 0 Sports|xCorrupt practices|zUnited States.
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