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The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
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by Bowden, Mark


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On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of television viewers around the country, the game would be remembered as the greatest in football history. On the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and Gino Marchetti, and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and assistant coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. An estimated forty-five million viewers--at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game--tuned in to see what would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. It was a battle of the league's best offense--the Colts--versus its best defense--the Giants. And it was a contest between the blue-collar Baltimore team versus the glamour boys of the Giants squad. The Best Game Ever is a brilliant portrait of how a single game changed the history of American sport. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the championship, it is destined to be a sports classic.

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  • Title The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
  • Author Bowden, Mark
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 240
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
  • Date 2008-05
  • ISBN 9780871139887

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Mark Bowden is the author of seven books, including Black Hawk Down and Guests of the Ayatollah . He reported at The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly .
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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the American NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of television viewers around the country, the game would be remembered as the greatest in football history. On the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and Gino Marchetti, and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and assistant coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. An estimated forty-five million viewers - at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game - tuned in to see what would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. It was a battle of the league's best offense - the Colts -versus its best defense - the Giants. And it was a contest between the blue-collar Baltimore team versus the… Read More
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