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Run to glory & profits : the economic rise of the NFL during the 1950s / David George Surdam.

Title: Run to glory & profits : the economic rise of the NFL during the 1950s / David George Surdam.
Author: Surdam, David G. (David George)
Publication: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]

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x, 433 pages; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Run to glory and profits

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

The usurpers: the AAFC challenge -- Prosperity and its drawbacks -- Measures of the NFL's popularity -- Profits and losses -- The perils and triumphs of NFL ownership -- Antitrust adventures -- Competitive balance and its sources -- The player draft -- Gate sharing -- Gilded peonage -- Television -- Innovation -- Integration -- Conclusion: The NFL's rise to prominence.

ISBN

9780803246966 (cloth : alk. paper)
080324696X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013011615

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