The Pride of Price Hill: Cincinnati's West Side and the Elder Mystique

by Jocelyn Emerson and Bill Koch

In The Dawn of Queen City athletic time, what would become known all over Ohio as 'The Pit' was exactly that -- a dusty cow pasture on Cincinnati's West Side adorned with a manhole on the 50-yard line. It was the only known playing field in Ohio where a manhole was the home field advantage, and its sewer-lid icon became a kind of trademark for the school's rough-and-ready working-class play. From that inauspicious beginning nearly eighty years ago...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882203860
• ISBN13: 9781882203864
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Orange Frazer Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.2" x 8.5"