LOST CHAMPIONS: Four Men, Two Teams, and the Breaking of…

LOST CHAMPIONS: Four Men, Two Teams, and the Breaking of Pro Football's Color Line. by Atwood, Gretchen. < >

LOST CHAMPIONS: Four Men, Two Teams, and the Breaking of Pro Football's Color Line.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A year before Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball in 1947, four men broke pro football's color line - Kenny Washington and Woody Strode with the Los Angeles Rams and Bill Willis and Marion Motley with the Cleveland Browns. This book traces the history of the color line
from the early 1930s--when NFL owners first instituted a ban on black players to the 1950 NFL Championship Game, which pitted the Rams and Browns against each other. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Photographs, notes, sources, index. 274 pp. ISBN: 978-1620406007.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

Book ID: 68668
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