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In Peter Schilling's wonderful book, the extraordinary football season of 1944 comes vividly to life. Costs Veeck, the maverick promoter, returned from Guadalcanal with a knee absent and $500 to his name, has hustled his way into purchasing the Philadelphia Athletics. Hungry for a pennant, young Veeck jettisons the team's white players and secretly recruits the legendary personalities of the Negro Leagues, fielding a golf club that will decrease in football annals among the greatest ever to experience the game. Listed below are the behind-the-scenes ventures that bring this wish to actuality, and a ensemble of character types only history's pen could create. The End of Football is the most rollicking, free-spirited football account in years, the unvarnished truth of that amazing season and the men who resided it.
