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Copy Link >> https://getpdf.readbooks.link/yupu/B07QM9Q95S &#8220Rosen artfully blends fascinating tales of the rise of the National Football League with the bloody demise of the mob.&#8221 &#8212Bill Geist, New York Times&#8211bestselling authorIn 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 for the gangland murder of his own brother-in-la

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&#8220Rosen artfully blends fascinating tales of the rise of the National Football League with the bloody demise of the mob.&#8221 &#8212Bill Geist, New York Times&#8211bestselling authorIn 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 for the gangland murder of his own brother-in-la

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artfully blends fascinating tales of the rise of the National

Football League with the bloody demise of the

mob.&#8221&#8212Bil Geist, New York

Times&#8211betselling authorIn 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

for 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 and the

demise&#8212trggered by Meyer Luckman&#8217crime and

initial coverup&#8212ofthe Brooklyn labor rackets and Louis

Lepke&#8217infamous organization Murder, Inc. Filled with

colorful characters, it memorably evokes an era of vicious

Brooklyn mobsters and undefeated Monsters of the Midway, a

time when the media kept their mouths shut and the softspoken

son of a murderer could become a beloved legend with

a hidden past.&#8220Rearkable... Artfully organized and

deeply researched... This [secret] is finally being told,

respectfully and stylishly.&#8221&#8212Chcago

Tribune&#8220Ths is a great and beautifully written untold

story.&#8221&#8212Ga Talese, New York

Times&#8211betselling author&#8220Afascinating story of the

NFL, its growth, and one of its star players. And it is more than

just a sports biography.&#8221&#8212Ilinois Times

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