Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. 1573920827; Very minor edge wear on the

Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. 1573920827; Very minor edge wear on the clean, sound binding. Very minor edge soil/foxing. Contents are almost as new, with no writing or other entries on the text. Very minor wear on the clean, complete DJ.; First Printing of the FIRST EDITION, 1996. 9-1/4" Tall, 570pp. Black boards, bright gold spine lettering. Endpapers are illustrated with b/w drawings of four football players (The Fearsome Foursome) in full pads, with facsimilies of their signaturees. SPORTS BIOGRAPHY. "From a small, rural town in Florida to the NFL Hall of Fame, this is the story of Deacon Jones' rise to the top of the heap in the National Football League. So devasting was his trademark move, the headslap, that the league eventually outlawed it. More than a simple sports story, HEADSLAP brings to full view the NFL during the 1960s and '70s-a time of incredible social upheaval and change in the U. S. Deacon's story reveals the difficulties that all black players confronted when trying to break into the NFL. These were truly incredible years in the history of football, and HEADSLAP tells it the way it really was. "...Bibliography. Index. 8 pages of Deacon Jones' Statistical Tables. 8-page b/w photo section.