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Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL
Contributor(s): Rosen, R. D. (Author), Ross, Jonathan Todd (Narrated by)

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 ISBN: 1515942589     ISBN-13: 9781515942580
Publisher: Tantor Audio
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Binding Type: Compact Disc - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2019
* Out of Print *
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Organized Crime
- True Crime | Murder - General
- Sports & Recreation | Football
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.4" W x 5.4" L (0.40 lbs)
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Price on Product, Unabridged
 
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Publisher Description:
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 high school 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, when Sid became a star at Columbia and a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback in Chicago, all of it while Meyer Luckman served twenty-years-to-life in Sing Sing Prison, the connection between sports celebrity son and mobster father was studiously ignored by the press and ultimately overlooked for eight decades. Tough Luck traces two simultaneous historical developments through a single immigrant family in Depression-era New York: the rise of the National Football League led by 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 and initial cover-up of the Brooklyn labor rackets and Louis Lepke's infamous organization Murder, Inc.

Contributor Bio(s): Ross, Jonathan Todd: - Jonathan Todd Ross has narrated over 120 audiobooks across a wide variety of genres. An Audie Award winner, he is also the recipient of numerous YALSA and AudioFile Earphones Awards. Jonathan loves narrating all genres, bringing the author's words to audio-life.Rosen, R. D.: - R. D. Rosen's many books include A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West and Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors. He grew up in Highland Park, Illinois, and lives in New York, where he still roots for the Chicago Bears.
 
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