The League

How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire

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The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America


The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing out $14 billion in annual revenue. But it was not always a success. In The League, John Eisenberg focuses on the pioneering sportsmen who kept the league alive in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s,when its challenges were many and its survival was not guaranteed. At the time, college football, baseball, boxing, and horseracing dominated America's sports...
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