The Galloping Ghost: Red Grange, an American Football Legend
September 11, 2008 10:07 AM
Gary Andrew Poole's new biography on Red Grange went on sale yesterday.
This past January, ESPN named Harold "Red" Grange the greatest college football player ever. Yet for all his achievements, Grange has been a largely overlooked and unexplored icon, until now. In THE GALLOPING GHOST, Gary Andrew Poole gives us the first major biography of Grange, one of the most significant athletes in American sports and the founding father of our football culture. A tremendous college player who decided to go against convention and turn pro in the 1920s -- a time when football was seen as a purely amateur sport -- Red Grange is known as the man responsible for popularizing the NFL, altering the American sports landscape forever.
The book's website features an extraordinary multimedia experience which spans the phases of Grange's life.
- garyandrewpoole.com/experience/red-grange
- Gary Andrew Poole audio interview on Chicago Public Radio.
- Purchase "The Galloping Ghost" at Amazon.
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