Warbirds - How They Played the Game

By Michael Grant

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974966207
• ISBN13: 9780974966205
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Lone Star Sundries
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I Knew This Team and Coaches

I'm buying the book and I know it will be excellent because I lived this time period as a kid (6-9 years old). My mother was coach Moser's personal secretary and head of ticket sales at the gym ticket office from 1954 through 1960. I went to most of the pep rallies with her and to every game in town or out. Coach Moser even let me come out to some of the practices to watch and occassionally fetch water with the waterboys. Remember the movie "Rudy" when he goes into the Notra Dame locker room for the first time? That was the way I was the first time I went into the Eagle locker room. Even got to hold Freddie Martinez helmet, Wow!! Even before fans wore team jerseys I had my own "33" black and gold jersey that I wore all the time. Thank you for this book and a chance to go back to a magical time period in my life. Larry Dobbs

Even if you don't like football.

Even though I am not a football fan, this book has been a real pleasure for me. It brings back such a flood of memories of an earlier time when a lot was expected from young people. I sometimes think I have just imagined that teenagers were once expected to work hard, respect their elders, and show "good moral character." Thank you, Michael, for confirming that my memories are correct. Thank you for reminding me that I did grow up in a special time and place. Thank you for giving the Warbirds back to me. Terry O'Neal, Class of '61

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enjoyed the book very much. some one should made a movie about the book, its just so good that it should be shared with every body. chuck

A book about much more than football

To say I am a fan of Michael Grant's way with words is an understatement. I came to his work by way of the column he wrote for many years for the newspaper here in San Diego. His writing has greatly influenced my own. Written with a reporter's eye for the telling detail, a novelist's sense of narrative, and an essayist's grasp of the larger meaning, Warbirds is pure Michael Grant. On the last page, Grant reflects on the team's incredible winning streak and what it meant to those who made it happen: "They saw for almost four years - almost the length of an entire high school education - what can happen when you live by the rules, know all the plays, and run till the whistle blows." Like the book itself, those words are more than a masterful summation of a memorable streak. They have the power to speak to our lives and these times, as well. Reading Warbirds today, you don't even have to be a football fan to appreciate how Coach Moser's Eagles played the game.