"The valuable part of the narrative is a story that many sports fans will not know, or at least know only in outline-namely, the increasing blurring of sports figure and cultural celebrity in the Depression era, especially once Hollywood began to recruit sports stars to turn up in all sorts of B-list productions. That blurring, after all, is what defines sports figures today, and Grange was an indisputable pioneer . . . A useful character study of a figure often overlooked today." Kirkus Reviews "Puts Grange's great career in the context of its colorful Pays worthy tribute to a legend." Booklist, ALA "Poole is eminently readable, and the accent on Pyle is a real bonus." Library Journal "A lively, well-written biography of this towering figure. Grange revolutionized the game on the field and his business manager, C.C. Pyle, revolutionized it off it." -- Orange County Register " how the game is played on the field, and how it resonates in the wider world." The Washington Post "[Poole] recounts the rise and tragic fall of the first national star of the gridiron. Poole also lays bare the complex relationship between a prominent athlete and the nation's first real sports agent." -- (Chicago) Sun-Times News Group "Poole gives us the first major biography of Grange." -- Time Out Chicago "Football wasn't truly football until the coming of Red Grange" -- Chicago Magazine -

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