Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL

by R.D. Rosen

Book Overview

In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school 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, when Sid became a star at Columbia and a Hall...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802129447
• ISBN13: 9780802129444
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"