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Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL

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ISBN: 9781620973370

Book Title: Tropic of Football : the Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the Nfl

Item Length: 9.4in

Publisher: New Press, T.H.E.

Publication Year: 2018

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 1.2in

Author: Rob Ruck

Genre: Sports & Recreation, Social Science

Topic: Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Sociology of Sports, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Football

Item Width: 6.3in

Item Weight: 21.9 Oz

Number of Pages: 320 Pages

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How a tiny Pacific archipelago is producing more players--from Troy Polamalu to Marcus Mariota--for the NFL than anywhere else in the world, by an award-winning sports historian Football is at a crossroads, its future imperiled by the very physicality that drives its popularity. Its grass roots--high school and youth travel program--are withering. But players from the small South Pacific American territory of Samoa are bucking that trend, quietly becoming the most disproportionately overrepresented culture in the sport. Jesse Sapolu, Junior Seau, Troy Polamalu, and Marcus Mariota are among the star players to emerge from the Samoan islands, and more of their brethren suit up every season. The very thing that makes them so good at football--their extraordinary internalization of discipline and warrior self-image--makes them especially vulnerable to its pitfalls, including concussions and brain injuries. Award-winning sports historian Rob Ruck travels to the South Seas to unravel American Samoa's complex ties with the United States. He finds an island blighted by obesity, where boys train on fields blistered with volcanic pebbles wearing helmets that should have been discarded long ago, incurring far more neurological damage than their stateside counterparts and haunted by Junior Seau, who committed suicide after a vaunted twenty-year NFL career, unable to live with the demons that resulted from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Tropic of Football is a gripping, bittersweet history of what may be football's last frontier.

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Publisher

New Press, T.H.E.

ISBN-10

1620973375

ISBN-13

9781620973370

eBay Product ID (ePID)

239544394

Product Key Features

Book Title

Tropic of Football : the Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the Nfl

Author

Rob Ruck

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Topic

Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Sociology of Sports, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Football

Publication Year

2018

Genre

Sports & Recreation, Social Science

Number of Pages

320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

9.4in

Item Height

1.2in

Item Width

6.3in

Item Weight

21.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number

Gv939.A1r83 2018

Reviews

Praise for Rob Ruck's Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game "Ruck's gutsy account of this major sport with a tarnished past is thought provoking, arguing that "the integration of Black America has cost the price of its soul plus a crucial part of its social cohesion." ? Publishers Weekly "A profound look at why Latinos have replaced African American baseball players, helping the reader understand the game as a business. Definitely a must-read for those who love the game, regardless of origin, race, or ethnicity." ? Juan Marichal, MLB Hall of Famer, Praise for Rob Ruck's Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game : "Ruck's gutsy account of this major sport with a tarnished past is thought provoking, arguing that "the integration of Black America has cost the price of its soul plus a crucial part of its social cohesion." -- Publishers Weekly "A profound look at why Latinos have replaced African American baseball players, helping the reader understand the game as a business. Definitely a must-read for those who love the game, regardless of origin, race, or ethnicity." -- Juan Marichal, MLB Hall of Famer "This book floored me. Rob Ruck helps us understand a part of football history that has been ignored for too long. No one understands like Ruck the intersection between the history of U.S. empire and the way it has shaped the sports we consume. He did it with baseball, now he does it with what has become the true American past time." --Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation and author of A People's History of Sports in the United States, Bad Sports, and Game Over "Tropic of Football is a beautifully crafted and thoughtful book. Through a variety of interviews and other sources, Rob Ruck tells the fascinating and often poignant story of football's role and impact in American Samoa. It is essential reading for anyone interested in a deeper understanding of football, collective identity, and 'the way of Samoa.'" --David K. Wiggins, author of Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America "Rob Ruck is arguably the most important sport historian of our time. His books on the African American and Latino roots of baseball have revolutionized our understanding and memory of the national game. Now he turns his brilliant gifts as historian and writer to a small Pacific island and its people, forcing us to rethink what we thought we knew about America's most popular sport, football." --Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship "On the night of January 9, 2018, an Alabama freshman named Tua Tagovailoa stunned America by coolly firing perhaps the most perfect pass in college football history. While everyone wondered, 'Where did he come from?,' only Rob Ruck had the full answer--and here it is. In this immersive, deeply reported odyssey, Ruck unveils the dynamics powering football's most dedicated and mysterious cadre, and in the process makes us grapple with a far deeper question. Yes, Samoan islanders have carved out an outsized place in the ultimate American game. But at what cost?" --S.L. Price, Sports Illustrated senior writer and author of Playing Through the Whistle, Praise for Rob Ruck's Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game : "Ruck's gutsy account of this major sport with a tarnished past is thought provoking, arguing that "the integration of Black America has cost the price of its soul plus a crucial part of its social cohesion." -- Publishers Weekly "A profound look at why Latinos have replaced African American baseball players, helping the reader understand the game as a business. Definitely a must-read for those who love the game, regardless of origin, race, or ethnicity." -- Juan Marichal, MLB Hall of Famer

2018

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Lccn

2017-059415

Dewey Decimal

796.33092

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