The Golden Age of Pro Football (Macmillan, 1974)
Mickey Herskowitz
Out of print – available secondhand
Listed: Pro Football Journal Top 100, #8
Which era was the ‘golden age’ of pro football will depend largely on who you ask. There are books making the case for pretty much every decade of the NFL’s history. In this case, Mickey Herskowitz goes back to the 1950s, profiling the teams, the players and the key off-field milestones of the era.
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