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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 796.332640973 EAN: 9780871139887 ISBN: 087113988X Label: Atlantic Monthly Press Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: May 05, 2008 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Studio: Atlantic Monthly Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of television viewers around the country, the game would be remembered as the greatest in football history. On the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and Gino Marchetti, and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and assistant coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. An estimated forty-five million viewers—at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game—tuned in to see what would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. It was a battle of the league's best offense—the Colts—versus its best defense—the Giants. And it was a contest between the blue-collar Baltimore team versus the glamour boys of the Giants squad. The Best Game Ever is a brilliant portrait of how a single game changed the history of American sport. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the championship, it is destined to be a sports classic. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Lukewarm retelling of often tall storyMark Bowden has written some amazing and riveting works of non-fiction and would certainly rate in the top five of anyone today but this work really does not do his prior great writing justice. Basically he takes a lot of other people's work and pardon the pun he treads on well worn turf. Bowden does not reveal any new or insightful offerings into the game, already one of the most well known and well written about games in history. (It precedes my time on this earth so I can't say how it ranks ... Read More Rating:  - Good Look at Turning Point in History of the NFLI enjoyed reading this book about a key turning point in the history of the NFL. Once the college game was more popular, but starting around the time of this game the NFL took over the nation's interest. While that was the result of many factors, the excitement of this game was certainly one of them. I had also recently read the biography of Johnny Unitas, and the two together tell the interesting story of the NFL in transition from second fiddle to baseball and college football to premier sports ... Read More Rating: - Enjoyable portrait of a great moment in pigskin historyIn recent times, using the adjective "best" in the title of a book about a sporting event has been used liberally. A golf match, the seventh game of the World Series and the NCAA basketball championship tilt have all received the designation as the greatest contest in the history of the sport. Mark Bowden's THE BEST GAME EVER casts its lot with the championship game celebrating its 50th anniversary this football season. The New York Giants and Baltimore Colts battled at Yankee Stadium in the first ... Read More Rating:  - Good StuffThere were lots of inside things in the book. I greatly enjoyed it. It also arrived very prompt. Rating: - one for the ages...Bowden always delivers. This is a quick read of the '58 NFL Championship Game. It's like watching a documentary of the game on ESPN Classic. A little game action then switch to a little background on some of the colorful personalities of the GIANTS or COLTS. All in all it delivers and entertains. I'm too young to have seen the game but I could picture my dad(a big Colts fan) cheering on Johnny Unitas! The names of the players, owners and coaches are legendary, all in all 17 of them from this game would ... Read More 
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