Cash and Carry

The Spectacular Rise and Hard Fall of C.C. Pyle, America's First Sports Agent
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7864-3846-4
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 235 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

C.C. ""Cash and Carry"" Pyle was a true American original. A dreamer and a schemer, Pyle made several fortunes by representing professional football and tennis players before quickly losing everything and disappearing into history's dustbin. To some, Pyle was a visionary. Others called him a villain, a phony, and a fraud. Either way, sports as we know it today owes a considerable debt of gratitude to C.C. Pyle, who gave the Golden Age of Sports a good dose of its color, its flair, and its chutzpah.This work reevaluates Pyle's fast life and times while analyzing his extraordinary and enduring legacy. It begins in 1925, when Pyle rocked the sports world by influencing Harold ""Red"" Grange to abandon the leafy confines of the University of Illinois for pro football, in essence thumbing his nose at protesting academics who insisted the move would irreparably harm both the college game and Grange's career. It continues through all of Pyle's successes, and more than a few of his failures, including his lucrative signing of controversial French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen and his descent into near-bankruptcy following losses incurred staging the short-lived annual Bunion Derby, as newspaper columnists dubbed the notorious 3,470-mile transcontinental footrace first held in 1928.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reisler, Jim

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Reisler has written books covering such topics as baseball, the deaf, and sportswriters. He lives in Irvington, New York.