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Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern N.F.L.

Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern N.F.L. Hardcover - 2019

by R.D. Rosen

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Rosen presents a remarkable tale of a golden son and his disgraced father, layered over the unforgettable era of Brooklyn mobsters and the rise of the National Football League.

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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 306 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photos. Fascinating, essentially unknown story of football great Sid Luckman and his family's involvement with organized crime. Luckman (1916-1988) , a Brooklyn native, began earning headlines in the mid-1930s and a star footballer for Erasmus Hall High School. At the same time, however, his father Meyer Luckman was making headlines for quite a different reason---the 1935 gangland murder of his brother-in- law. Mr. Luckman was involved with the labor rackets and with Louis Lepke's Murder Inc. (Sid's father spent the rest of his life in Sing Sing). This book traces two simultaneous historical developments connected by a single immigrant family in Depression era New York: the rise of the National Football League and the powerful Chicago Bears; and the demise (triggered by Meyer Luckman's crime and its initial coverup) of the Brooklyn labor rackets and Murder, Inc.
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  • Title Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern N.F.L.
  • Author R.D. Rosen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
  • Date 2019
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # E29673
  • ISBN 9780802129444 / 0802129447
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects National Football League - History, Sports - Corrupt practices - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019033266
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2019, Page 16
  • Library Journal, 08/01/2019, Page 109
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/02/2019, Page 0

About the author

R. D. Rosen's many books include recent nonfiction that connects America's past and present, including A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West and Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors. He won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for his first of five mystery novels featuring retired Jewish major league baseball player-turned-detective Harvey Blissberg, and has written about sports for many national publications. He has served as a senior editor for both ESPN Books and Workman Publishing, and once upon a time wrote or performed comedy for PBS, HBO, and Saturday Night Live. He grew up across the street from Sid Luckman in Highland Park, Illinois, and lives in New York, where he still roots for the Chicago Bears.

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