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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Release Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9781648430961
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-10
1648430961
ISBN-13
9781648430961
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17057266121
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hole in the Roof : The Dallas Cowboys, Clint Murchison Jr. , and the Stadium That Changed American Sports Forever
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
General, History, Football, Sports
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Book Series
Swaim-Paup Sports Series, Sponsored by James C. '74 and Debra Parchman Swaim and T. Edgar '74 and Nancy Paup Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-021561
Reviews
" Hole in the Roof is a riveting page turner. It succeeds in providing a gripping insider's tale that is at times a biography, business book, and sports history. It also delivers a surprisingly moving chapter, appropriately titled 'Bizarre Beyond Belief,' of how the Dallas Cowboys were unexpectedly caught up in the tumultuous aftermath of fallout from the assassination of JFK. Hole in the Roof is a book to savor."--Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK , a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, "Five thousand years from now some sentient being will stumble upon the ruins of that giant helmet-head of a stadium in Arlington, Texas, and wonder how it all came to be. Hopefully, a copy of Granberry's and Murchison's amazing Hole in the Roof will still be around to tell them."--Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award, "Co-authors Burk Murchison and Michael Granberry have hit something here. I always thought all the 'inside' stories on Jerry Jones buying the Cowboys from Bum Bright had been told and retold. But with Hole in the Roof , there's a fascinating new story about Jerry almost being totally shut out of the sale. Can you imagine, for better or worse, no socks and jocks for Jerry to sort?"--Randy Galloway, 2022 inductee in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, now retired after 50 years as a sports columnist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and 29 years as a sports-talk radio host, "When Clint Murchison built Texas Stadium to house his Dallas Cowboys in 1971, he changed the fortunes -- and the earning power -- of the NFL. He took football teams out of baseball stadiums and introduced the sport to the suburbs. He also transformed gameday from a sporting event into a luxurious experience."--Rick Gosselin, 50-year veteran of covering the National Football League and a voter in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
796.33264097642812
Synopsis
In 1966, when the still-young Dallas Cowboys franchise ended six years of agony with their first winning season, the team's owner and founder, Clint Murchison Jr., son of a billionaire oilman, was feeling ambitious. He believed his team would be good, even special, for years to come. With such dreams dancing in his head, Murchison found that the aging Cotton Bowl in Dallas's Fair Park was no longer a suitable home for what would soon be dubbed "America's Team." Hole in the Roof: The Dallas Cowboys, Clint Murchison Jr., and the Stadium That Changed American Sports Forever tells the story of Texas Stadium, with its trademark hole in the roof, which served the Cowboys for 38 seasons without ever requiring a penny of public dollars. In 1966, though the Cotton Bowl was one of the newer stadiums in the National Football League, Murchison saw it as an outdated venue. What he envisioned was a shiny new stadium near downtown Dallas, but to realize his vision for what a professional sports venue could be--and the many benefits that the resulting revenue could generate--he needed buy-in from Dallas city leaders. Hole in the Roof chronicles Murchison's founding of an extraordinary sports franchise and the battles he fought to build the stadium he wanted. Along the way, this book provides not only a sweeping biography of Clint Jr., a history of the Cowboys from before their inception in 1960 until now (including Jerry Jones), and a history of Texas Stadium, but also a critical look at how Clint's original concept of the stadium has been corrupted--by greed and avarice. Opening with a foreword by Drew Pearson, all-time Cowboy great and NFL Hall-of-Famer, and based on extensive research in both public and media archives and Murchison family records, Hole in the Roof contains the inside story of the iconic venue where the Cowboys went on to play each of their five Super Bowl-winning seasons: where Murchison proved that stadiums could be a source of revenue surpassing even television., Opening with a foreword by Drew Pearson, all-time Dallas Cowboy great and NFL Hall-of-Famer, and based on extensive research in both public and media archives and Murchison family records, this book chronicles Clint Murchison's founding of an extraordinary sports franchise and the battles he fought to build the stadium he wanted.
LC Classification Number
GV956.D3M87 2023
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