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Price, S. L. (Scott L.), 1962- author.
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Aliquippa Junior/Senior High School (Aliquippa, Pa.) -- Football.
Football -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Aliquippa.
Steel industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Aliquippa -- History.
Iron and steel workers -- Pennsylvania -- Aliquippa -- History.
Aliquippa (Pa.) -- History.
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Playing through the whistle : steel, football, and an American town / S.L. Price.
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Price, S. L. (Scott L.), 1962- author.
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2016.
Subjects
Aliquippa Junior/Senior High School (Aliquippa, Pa.) -- Football.
Football -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Aliquippa.
Steel industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Aliquippa -- History.
Iron and steel workers -- Pennsylvania -- Aliquippa -- History.
Aliquippa (Pa.) -- History.
ISBN:
9780802125644 (hardcover) :
0802125646 (hardcover)
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x, 550 pages : map ; 24 cm
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First edition.
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"A Sports Illustrated senior writer presents a moving epic of football in industrial America, tracing the story of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania's now-shuttered steel mill, and its legendary high school football team,"--NoveList.
In the early twentieth century, down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company built one of the largest mills in the world and a town to go with it. Aliquippa was a beacon and a melting pot, pulling in thousands of families from eastern and southern Europe and the Jim Crow South. The J&L mill, though dirty and dangerous, offered a chance at a better life and hope for the future. It produced the steel that built American cities and won World War II and, thanks to hard-fought union victories, made Aliquippa something of a workers' paradise. But then, in the 1980s, the steel industry cratered. The mill closed. Crime rose and crack hit big. But another industry grew in Aliquippa. The town didn't just make steel; it made elite football players, from Mike Ditka to Ty Law to Darrelle Revis. Despite its troubles--maybe even because of them--Aliquippa became legendary for producing greatness. In Playing Through the Whistle, celebrated sportswriter S. L. Price tells the remarkable story of Aliquippa and through it, the larger history of American industry, sports, and life. Price charts the fortunes of Aliquippa's celebrated team through championships under charismatic coaches and through hard times after the mill died. In an era when sports has grown from novelty to a vital source of civic pride, Price reveals the shifting mores of a town defined by work--and the loss of it--yet anchored by a weekly game. Today, as our view of football shifts and participation drops, in Aliquippa the sport can still feel like the one path away from life on the streets, the last force keeping the town together.--Adapted from dust jacket.
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Hawaii State Library
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796.33262 Pr
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796.33262 Pr
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