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03398aam a22004578i 4500 001 BCFB1CAAE02311E98EBD524297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190926010610 008 190823t20192019nyuaf b 001 0beng 010 $a 2019033266 020 $a 0802129447 020 $a 9780802129444 035 $a (OCoLC)1090486155 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d ZH8 $d HHO $d VP@ $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-il $a n-us-il 050 00 $a GV939.L83 $b R67 2019 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Rosen, Richard Dean, $d 1949- $e author. 245 10 $a Tough luck : $b Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the rise of the modern NFL / $c R. D. Rosen. 246 3 $a Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the rise of the modern NFL 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Atlantic Monthly Press, $c [2019] 300 $a x, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, after Sid became a star at Columbia and then led the Chicago Bears to multiple NFL championships, all while Meyer wasted away in Sing Sing, the connection between sports celebrity son and mobster father was ignored by the press and then overlooked for eight decades. Tough Luck traces two historic developments connected by a single immigrant family in Depression-era New York: the rise of the National Football League through the dynastic Chicago Bears, whose famed owner George Halas convinced Sid Luckman to help him turn the sluggish game of pro football into America's favorite pastime; and the demise-triggered by Meyer Luckman's crime-of the Brooklyn labor rackets and of Louis Lepke's infamous organization Murder Inc. Filled with colorful characters-from ambitious district attorney turned governor Thomas Dewey and legendary columnist Walter Winchell, to Sid Luckman's rival quarterback "Slingin'" Sammy Baugh; from hit men like "Tick Tock" Tannenbaum, to Sid's powerful post-career friends Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio-Tough Luck unforgettably evokes an era of vicious Brooklyn mobsters and undefeated Monsters of the Midway, a time when the media kept their mouths shut and the soft-spoken son of a murderer could become a beloved Hall of Fame legend with a hidden past"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Luckman, Sid. 650 0 $a Football players $z Chicago $z Chicago $v Biography. 610 20 $a National Football League $x History. 610 20 $a Chicago Bears (Football team) $x History. 650 0 $a Organized crime $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Immigrant families $z Chicago. $z Chicago. 650 0 $a Sports $x Corrupt practices $z United States. 941 $a 5 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710045531.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722061740.0 952 $l YGPC162 $d 20191213024535.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20191003010633.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190926013457.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BCFB1CAAE02311E98EBD524297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search