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Tough Luck
- Author
- R. D. Rosen
- Narrator
- Jonathan Todd Ross
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 3 September 2019
- Run Time
- 9 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Tough Luck traces two simultaneous historical developments through a single immigrant family in Depression-era New York: the rise of the National Football League led by the dynastic Chicago Bears, whose famed owner George Halas convinced Sid Luckman to help him turn the sluggish game of pro football into America's favorite pastime; and the demise—triggered by Meyer Luckman's crime and initial cover-up of the Brooklyn labor rackets and Louis Lepke's infamous organization Murder, Inc.
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Details
- Author
- R. D. Rosen
- Narrator
- Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duration
- 9 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 September 2019
- ISBN
- 9781515942573
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- History, Sport: general, American football, True crime, Organized crime, History of the Americas, History of the Americas, True crime, True crime: serial killers and murderers
Synopsis
In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, when Sid became a star at Columbia and a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback in Chicago, all of it while Meyer Luckman served twenty-years-to-life in Sing Sing Prison, the connection between sports celebrity son and mobster father was studiously ignored by the press and ultimately overlooked for eight decades.Tough Luck traces two simultaneous historical developments through a single immigrant family in Depression-era New York: the rise of the National Football League led by the dynastic Chicago Bears, whose famed owner George Halas convinced Sid Luckman to help him turn the sluggish game of pro football into America's favorite pastime; and the demise—triggered by Meyer Luckman's crime and initial cover-up of the Brooklyn labor rackets and Louis Lepke's infamous organization Murder, Inc.
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