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Hidden History of Cleveland Sports

By Marc Bona

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2021
ISBN
9781439672709, 2021934328, 9781467146128
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (6915334 bytes)
Series
Sports
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-01 15:24:33
HIS036090HistoryNonfictionSPO003030SPO019000Sports & Recreations

Description

Cleveland sports history goes well beyond The Shot, The Fumble, The Drive and so many other ignoble moments. Many of the city's most illustrious sports tales are long-forgotten chapters of tribulations and tragedy, of fleeting fame and enduring milestones. There are forgotten firsts, such as football's first pass and the invention of baseball's slider having ties to Cleveland. There are overshadowed tragedies like a fatal crash involving an Indians pitcher occurring the same year two of the team's hurlers were killed in a high-profile boating accident. And then there are the near misses—like George Steinbrenner coming within seconds of owning the Indians and a famous musician who almost became a Cleveland Brown. From basketball to boxing, hockey to Heisman, journalist Marc Bona chronicles more than a century of unremembered tales.

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