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The Philly Fan's Code : The 50 Toughest, Craziest, Most Legendary Philadelphia Athletes of the Last 50 Years /
Face it: Philadelphia athletes are often as tough as their fans are passionate. How else to explain the rabid appeal of the bone-crunching Broad Street Bullies? Chuck Bednarik was one of the looniest tunes in Philadelphia sports history, but fuggedabout him. In The Philly Fan's Code, New York T...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; 1. The Answer in Theory, but Not in Practice; 2. The Bully Who Made Us Believe; 3. The Slugger Who Won Our Hearts, Eventually; 4. The Man, and the Man Crush; 5. The Showman We Could Not Boo. Or Could We?; 6. The Babe Ruth of Backspin; 7. The Haunted, Eternal Samurai; 8. The Defense of the Minister; 9. The Role Model for the Non-Role Models; 10. He Called Us the F-Word; 11. He Brooded Back at Us; 12. The Idiot Man, Hallelujah; 13. Better Than the Greatest, If Only Briefly; 14. The Reluctant Enforcer; 15. The Once and Future Captain; 16. The Pan-Dimensional Catcher.