Kevin Cook
2) The last headbangers: NFL football in the rowdy, reckless '70s - the era that created modern sports
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, at the tipping point of a new era in baseball history"--
May 17, 1979. Nobody expected an afternoon game to be much more than a lazy early-season contest matching two teams heading in opposite directions-- the first-place Phillies and those lovable losers, the Cubs. Cook provides a vivid account of a game that...