A veteran sports columnist follows the New York Giants behind the scenes for one eventful week in December 1989, highlighting the team's key personnel and chronicling their preparations for a crucial game against the Eagles

No Medals for Trying: A Week in the Life of a Pro Football Team

Izenberg, Jerry

Sports & Outdoors

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket.

How many miles to Camelot?: The all-American sport myth

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Rozelle chronicles the life and times of the architect of the modern National Football League, Pete Rozelle, who transformed football into arguably the most successful sports league in the world. While he was never considered a serious candidate for the job of NFL commissioner early on, the position ultimately catapulted Rozelle into the role through which he transformed the NFL and became a trailblazer for all sports in the second half of the twentieth century. When he became commissioner in 1960, the league had twelve teams playing to half-empty stadiums and was mired in an outdated business model. Rozelle introduced revenue and television profit sharing to guarantee the success of small-market teams and brought every NFL game to national television. Rozelle’s monumental achievements include the introduction of the Super Bowl in the ’60s followed by the NFL’s most rapid expansion and the establishment of Monday Night Football. The ’80s saw Rozelle presiding over drug scandals, labor struggles, and the league’s legal battles with team owners such as Oakland’s Al Davis, who famously won a lawsuit to move his Raiders to Los Angeles. Jerry Izenberg chronicles the iconic life of Rozelle, who revolutionized the culture of sports in America and is responsible for turning the NFL into the preeminent sports league in the world.

Rozelle: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

University Of Nebraska Press

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Ivy Books

Describes the sixth and final game in the 1986 National League Championship Series between the New York Mets and the Houston Astros, a game that lasted sixteen innings

Greatest Game Ever Played

Henry Holt Co.

After the Fire: Love and Hate in the Ashes of 1967

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“After the Fire is a tour de force on love in a place and time that made love all but impossible. Jerry Izenberg takes us onto the mean streets of riot-scarred Newark. We meet heroes and fools, scheming politicians, Sinatra, Mafia bosses, and a beautiful Juliet with her All-American Romeo. More than once, Izenberg’s story will leave you breathless.” — Dave Kindred, author of Sound and Fury, a dual biography of Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell 
From an award-winning author comes a historical novel of forbidden love in a time of social upheaval. 
Newark, 1968. Junior Friscella, Montclair State football star and Italian North Ward hero, has a bright future ahead of him. His family and friends adore him. He doesn’t expect to be blindsided by Mickey Washington, a tough, smart black beauty from the wrong side of town—or to fall completely in love with her. 
Mickey Washington, raised by a single mother in the Black Central Ward, works hard to contribute to her family, put herself through college, and make her mother proud. Italian golden boy Junior Friscella is the very last thing she needs. So why can’t she stop thinking about him? 
Still recovering from the 1967 riots, Newark seethes with racial tension, corrupt politics, and rival mob families jostling for influence—and is the wrong place and the wrong time for Junior and Mickey. When their relationship becomes public knowledge, neighbors turn on neighbors, family members refuse to accept them, and racially charged violence meets them at every turn. Junior takes a bullet for Mickey, and his family must decide whether to stand up against a city on the brink of riot or push him to break off the relationship. 
Junior and Mickey believe their love is more powerful than the hate swirling around them. But can they ever find acceptance and peace in a world that wants to tear them apart? 
 Review 
"After the Fire is a tour de force on love in a place and time that made love all but impossible. Jerry Izenberg takes us onto the mean streets of riot-scarred Newark. We meet heroes and fools, scheming politicians, Sinatra, Mafia bosses, and a beautiful Juliet with her All-American Romeo. More than once, Izenberg's story will leave you breathless." --Dave Kindred, author of Sound and Fury, a dual biography of Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell\n"Jerry Izenberg over many years has maintained a position as one of America's finest sports columnists. It comes as a welcome surprise, indeed, that, in After the Fire, he establishes himself as a very fine novelist. The taut drama of a bi-racial love affair and the machinations of ward politics and mob influence in Newark in the turbulent '60s is riveting from beginning to end or, in another context, from the first pitch to the final out." --Ira Berkow, Pulitzer Prize winner\n"I became Champ because I looked out for sneaky punches; This novel by Jerry Izenberg both KOd and fascinated me because I didn't see such beauty and intrigue coming straight at me. Hold on to your seat and read." --George Foreman, two-time Heavyweight Champion of the World\n"I am a native of northern New Jersey and vividly recall the year 1967 when Newark was burning and multiple factions of both good and bad people were pitted against one another. . . . The fear was real. Jerry Izenberg, a Newark native himself, does a great job recounting these troubled times." --Bill Parcells, Jersey bred and twice a Super Bowl champion 
 About the Author 
Jerry Izenberg, columnist emeritus at the New Jersey 
Star-Ledger, is a five-time winner of the New Jersey Sportswriter of the Year Award, and a winner of the coveted Red Smith Award-the highest honor given by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He and his wife Aileen live in Henderson, NV and have four children, nine grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Writing this novel at age 90 was on the top of his bucket list.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Admission Press

About the Author\nJerry Izenberg, columnist emeritus at the New Jersey Star-Ledger, is a five-time winner of the New Jersey Sportswriter of the Year Award, and a winner of the coveted Red Smith Award-the highest honor given by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He and his wife Aileen live in Henderson, NV and have four children, nine grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Writing this novel at age 90 was on the top of his bucket list.\nFrom an award-winning author comes a historical novel of forbidden love in a time of social upheaval.\nNewark, 1968. Junior Friscella, Montclair State football star and Italian North Ward hero, has a bright future ahead of him. His family and friends adore him. He doesn't expect to be blindsided by Mickey Washington, a tough, smart black beauty from the wrong side of town-or to fall completely in love with her. 
Mickey Washington, raised by a single mother in the Black Central Ward, works hard to contribute to her family, put herself through college, and make her mother proud. Italian golden boy Junior Friscella is the very last thing she needs. So why can't she stop thinking about him? 
Still recovering from the 1967 riots, Newark seethes with racial tension, corrupt politics, and rival mob families jostling for influence-and is the wrong place and the wrong time for Junior and Mickey. When their relationship becomes public knowledge, neighbors turn on neighbors, family members refuse to accept them, and racially charged violence meets them at every turn. Junior takes a bullet for Mickey, and his family must decide whether to stand up against a city on the brink of riot or push him to break off the relationship. 
Junior and Mickey believe their love is more powerful than the hate swirling around them. But can they ever find acceptance and peace in a world that wants to tear them apart?

Once There Were Giants: The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing

A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter. Once upon a time, of all the memories made in ballparks and arenas from California to New York, there was nothing to rival that magic moment that could grab a heavyweight fight crowd by its collective jugular vein and trigger a tsunami of raw emotion before a single punch had even been thrown. That’s the way it was when the heavyweight giants danced in the boxing ring during the golden eras of the greats Ali, Frazier, Holmes, and Spinks, to name a few. There will never again be a heavyweight cycle like the one that began when Sonny Liston stopped Floyd Patterson and ended when Mike Tyson bit a slice out of Evander Holyfield’s ear; when no ersatz drama, smoke, mirrors, and noise followed a fighter’s entry into the ring; when the crowds knew that these men were not actors on a stage but rather giants in a ring with a single purposeto fight other giants. By the ringside, acclaimed sportswriter Jerry Izenberg watched history as it was being made during those legendary days, witnessing fights like the Thrilla in Manila and the Rumble in the Jungle and preserving them in punchy yet tremendous prose. Delivering both his eyewitness accounts and revelatory back stories of this greatest era of heavyweight boxing, Izenberg invites readers to a place of recollection. Once There Were Giants is his memorial to this extraordinary time, the likes of which we shall never see again.

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Skyhorse

**New edition updated with a foreword by Manny Pacquiao.** A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter. Once upon a time, of all the memories made in ballparks and arenas from California to New York, there was nothing to rival that magic moment that could grab a heavyweight fight crowd by its collective jugular vein and trigger a tsunami of raw emotion before a single punch had even been thrown. That's the way it was when the heavyweight giants danced in the boxing ring during the golden eras of the greats Ali, Frazier, Holmes, and Spinks, to name a few. There will never again be a heavyweight cycle like the one that began when Sonny Liston stopped Floyd Patterson and ended when Mike Tyson bit a slice out of Evander Holyfield's ear; when no ersatz drama, smoke, mirrors, and noise followed a fighter's entry into the ring; when the crowds knew that these men were not actors on a stage but rather giants in a ring with a single purpose--to fight other giants. By the ringside, acclaimed sportswriter Jerry Izenberg watched history as it was being made during those legendary days, witnessing fights like the Thrilla in Manila and the Rumble in the Jungle and preserving them in punchy yet tremendous prose. Delivering both his eyewitness accounts and revelatory back stories of this greatest era of heavyweight boxing, Izenberg invites readers to a place of recollection. Once There Were Giants is his memorial to this extraordinary time, the likes of which we shall never see again.

Larry Doby in Black and White: The Story of a Baseball Pioneer

Community & Culture

Sports Publishing

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Books by Izenberg, Jerry

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No Medals for Trying: A Week in the Life of a Pro Football Team

How many miles to Camelot?: The all-American sport myth

Rozelle: A Biography

No Medals for Trying: A Week in the Life of a Pro Football Team

Greatest Game Ever Played

After the Fire: Love and Hate in the Ashes of 1967

After the Fire: Love and Hate in the Ashes of 1967

Once There Were Giants: The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing

Once There Were Giants: The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing

Larry Doby in Black and White: The Story of a Baseball Pioneer