The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire

by John Eisenberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541618645
• ISBN13: 9781541618640
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.5"