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“ed gruver”

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  • Hell with the Lid Off

    Inside the Fierce Rivalry between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers

    by Ed Gruver, Jim Campbell ...
    Hell with the Lid Off looks at the ferocious five-year war waged by Pittsburgh and Oakland for NFL supremacy during the turbulent seventies. The roots of their rivalry dated back to the 1972 playoff game in Pittsburgh that ended with the “Immaculate Reception,” Franco Harris’s stunning touchdown that led the Steelers to a win over the Raiders in their first postseason meeting. That famous game ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Wee Ice Mon Cometh

    Ben Hogan's 1953 Triple Slam and One of Golf's Greatest Summers

    by Ed Gruver ...
    Shortlisted for the 2024 USGA Herbert Warren Wind AwardIt is considered by many the greatest season in golf history. In 1953 Ben Hogan provided a fitting exclamation point to his miraculous comeback from a near-fatal auto accident by becoming the first player to win golf’s Triple Crown—the Masters, the U.S. Open, and the British Open—within a span of four months. It was closer than anyone had ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Game That Saved the NHL

    The Broad Street Bullies, the Soviet Red Machine, and Super Series '76

    by Ed Gruver ...
    In late 1975 and early 1976, at the height of the Cold War, two of the Soviet Union’s long-dominant national hockey teams traveled to North America to play an eight-game series against the best teams in the National Hockey League. The culmination of the “Super Series” was reigning Soviet League champion HC CSKA Moscow’s face-off against the defending NHL champion Flyers in Philadelphia on January ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Ice Bowl

    The Cold Truth About Football's Most Unforgettable Game

    by Ed Gruver ...
    The day of the Ice Bowl game was so cold, the referees' whistles wouldn't work; so cold, the reporters' coffee froze in the press booth; so cold, fans built small fires in the concrete and metal stands; so cold, TV cables froze and photographers didn't dare touch the metal of their equipment; so cold, the game was as much about survival as it was about skill and strategy. On New Year's Eve, 1967, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Bringing the Monster to Its Knees

    Ben Hogan, Oakland Hills, and the 1951 U.S. Open

    by Ed Gruver ...
    Bringing The Monster to its Knees: Ben Hogan, Oakland Hills, and the 1951 U.S. Open is the first full-length book on a victory that the four-time U.S. Open champion always maintained was the "most satisfying" of his long and storied Hall of Fame career. It fills an important void in previous books on Hogan's tournament play, books covering his championship quests from Merion in 1950 to the Olympic ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Joe Louis vs. Billy Conn

    Boxing's Unforgettable Summer of 1941

    by Ed Gruver ...
    Sports fans had much to occupy themselves with during the memorable summer of ’41, including New York Yankees great Joe DiMaggio's record-setting consecutive games hit streak and Boston Red Sox star Ted Williams' dogged pursuit of batting .400. No sports story, however, loomed larger that summer than Joe Louis versus Billy Conn, the hard-hitting heavyweight champion, Detroit’s "Brown Bomber," ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hairs vs. Squares

    The Mustache Gang, the Big Red Machine, and the Tumultuous Summer of '72

    by Ed Gruver ...
    Hairs vs. Squares is an ode to an unforgettable season that began with the first major players’ strike in the history of North American sports and ended with a record-setting World Series played by two of the game’s greatest and most colorful dynasties. In a sign of the times it was Hippies vs. Hardhats, a clash of cultures with the hirsute, mod Mustache Gang colliding with the clean-cut, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD