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The Semi-Pros – The Novel
The Semi-Pros is a hard-hitting, new novel about minor league football.
Packed with vivid game action, The Semi-Pros brings to life a throwback version of football played with uncompromising passion.
For more information, go to:
http://www.booklocker.com/books/1392.html
or
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591133440/qid=1069692658/sr=1
Summary: In the early 1900s, independent football teams sprang up in the gritty factory towns of America’s heartland. The games these teams played served as diversions from the gray reality of industrial life. At the end of the century, one team still survives in an obscure western Pennsylvania town. The semi-professional Coalcrackers are tightly woven into the social fabric of Waylon as a result of their longevity and success. The team’s past star players hold near-mythical status in the lore of the town. But Waylon and its once-mighty team have fallen on hard times. The sponsoring athletic club is even compelled to sell controlling interest in the team to fund the upcoming season. Then Mike Rader, the last of the Coalcracker heroes, returns. Cool and bold, Mike re-ignites an old romance with Leah Marciniak, an attractive, strong-willed reporter. Then he triggers a surprising chain of events that give the Coalcrackers and their hometown one last, come-from-behind chance.
Excerpt: Joe knew that some people dismissed the Coalcrackers as a hobby, a diversion, something peripheral to the important things in life. For Joe, the Coalcrackers weren’t peripheral. They were at the very center of his existence. Semi-pro football was an adventure that magnified Joe’s life. Through the Coalcrackers, Joe had reached into depths of character, emotion, intellect and physicality that nothing else expected of him. The team made Joe’s life more challenging, satisfying and rewarding. It made him excited to be alive.
“Every man wants to feel like a hero once in his life,” George Walczak used to say. “That’s why they play for the Coalcrackers.”
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