description: This first major biography of the gridiron great Red Grangereveals how a gifted athlete and a wily agent gave birth toprofessional football in America.The Galloping Ghost spins the remarkable story of Red Grange, thefleet-footed college football player who inspired poetry and dazzledfans as he felled opponents on the field, and who, aided by his unscrupulousand utterly brilliant manager, the notorious Charles "Cash andCarry" Pyle, helped launch professional football, changing Americansports forever.Journalist Gary Andrew Poole draws on exhaustive archival researchand interviews to evoke the 1920s and the golden age of sports in all theirsplendor and outrageousness. He transports readers from college footballrallies to barnstorming tours, from the locker room to the White Houseand Hollywood, as he recounts Grange's rise and ultimate, tragic fall.More important, The Galloping Ghost plumbs the depths of a fascinatingand psychologically complex relationship between a star athlete and thiscountry's first real sports agent, a relationship -- as necessary as it wasevil -- that encapsulated the good and shadowy sides of sports and howthey inevitably intersect.For fans of Cinderella Man, The Devil and Sonny Liston, andThe Devil in the White City, The Galloping Ghost is an atmospheric,character-driven story that sheds new light on a seminal sports figure.
language: English
title: The Galloping Ghost: The Autobiography of Red Grange
titlecomplete: The Galloping Ghost: The Autobiography of Red Grange
genres: Football, Biography, Sports
ratings_count: 53
publisher: Crossroads