Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town (Hardcover) by S L Price

from MugsyNoir

I grew up in western Pennsylvania during a time when the coal mines and steel mills of Jones & Laughlin Corporation provided employment for my dad and most of my friends' dads too. In fact, other than a stint with Uncle Sam, my dad spent his entire working career with J&L. We lived in “The Patch”...

from zmagic69

I am going to start with what I didn't like about this book, in fact I would have taken 1 star off ordinarily. 1. There are no pictures! How in the world did this book get approved with no pictures? 2. The scattershot way the story is told. Especially the second half of the book. It was hard at t...

from labdaddy4

As much as I love athletics - this was a pretty depressing book and unfortunately hard to read. While the book is thorough and amazingly detailed the focus seemed to be primarily on the negative. The day-to-day life for everyone in Aliquippa is about as rough as can be imagined. The citizens ther...

from MugsyNoir

I grew up in western Pennsylvania during a time when the coal mines and steel mills of Jones & Laughlin Corporation provided employment for my dad and most of my friends' dads too. In fact, other than a stint with Uncle Sam, my dad spent his entire working career with J&L. We lived in “The Patch”...

from zmagic69

I am going to start with what I didn't like about this book, in fact I would have taken 1 star off ordinarily. 1. There are no pictures! How in the world did this book get approved with no pictures? 2. The scattershot way the story is told. Especially the second half of the book. It was hard at t...