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Growing up on the gridiron : football, friendship, and the tragic life of Owen Thomas

Title
Growing up on the gridiron : football, friendship, and the tragic life of Owen Thomas / Vicki Mayk.
Author
Mayk, Vicki
Publication
Boston : Beacon Press, [2020]

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Description
188 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"Explores the experience of one young man and the concerns about CTE he helped to illuminate, and the cultural allure of football in America that keeps boys trying to make the team despite the dangers"--
Subject
  • Thomas, Owen, 1988-2010
  • Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
  • Football > Social aspects > United States
  • Football players > Pennsylvania > Biography
  • SPORTS & RECREATION / General
  • Football players
  • Football > Social aspects
  • Allentown (Pa.) > Biography
  • Pennsylvania
  • Pennsylvania > Allentown
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Game Changer -- ch. 2 Birth Of A Viking -- ch. 3 Suiting Up -- ch. 4 In The Middle -- ch. 5 Football Boys -- ch. 6 Thundercats -- ch. 7 Penn Pals -- ch. 8 Football Family -- ch. 9 Playing Through The Pain -- ch. 10 Testimony -- ch. 11 Divine Providence -- ch. 12 Changing Their Minds -- ch. 13 But Not Forgotten.
ISBN
  • 9780807021927
  • 080702192X
  • 9780807014721
  • 0807014729
  • 9780807021965 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2020011375
OCLC
  • on1132238921
  • 1132238921
  • SCSB-14115296
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library