The Galloping Ghost : Red Grange, an American football legend
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-311) and index.

In the 1920s four athletes defined American sports: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Red Grange. They were the country's first athletic pantheon, and for a few brief years Red Grange outshone them all. This is the remarkable untold story of this fleet-footed college football player who inspired poetry, dazzled fans as he felled opponents on the field, and, with the help of an unscrupulous and utterly brilliant manager (the first real-life Jerry Maguire), helped launch and legitimize professional football, changing American sports forever. Biographer Poole draws on exhaustive research and interviews to evoke the golden age of sports in all its splendor and outrageousness. He transports readers from college football rallies to barnstorming tours, from the locker room to the White House to Hollywood, and he lays bare the fascinating and psychologically complex relationship between a star athlete and the nation's first real sports agent.--From publisher description.