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100 1  Rosen, Richard Dean,|d1949-|eauthor. 
245 10 Tough luck :|bSid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the rise of 
       the modern NFL /|cR.D. Rosen. 
250    First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 
250    First edition 
264  1 New York :|bAtlantic Monthly Press,|c2019. 
300    x, 306 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-293) and 
       index. 
520    "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 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, 
       after Sid became a star at Columbia and then led the 
       Chicago Bears to multiple NFL championships, all while 
       Meyer wasted away in Sing Sing, the connection between 
       sports celebrity son and mobster father was ignored by the
       press and then overlooked for eight decades. Tough Luck 
       traces two historic developments connected by a single 
       immigrant family in Depression-era New York: the rise of 
       the National Football League through 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-of the Brooklyn labor rackets and
       of Louis Lepke's infamous organization Murder Inc. Filled 
       with colorful characters-from ambitious district attorney 
       turned governor Thomas Dewey and legendary columnist 
       Walter Winchell, to Sid Luckman's rival quarterback 
       "Slingin'" Sammy Baugh; from hit men like "Tick Tock" 
       Tannenbaum, to Sid's powerful post-career friends Frank 
       Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio-Tough Luck unforgettably evokes 
       an era of vicious Brooklyn mobsters and undefeated 
       Monsters of the Midway, a time when the media kept their 
       mouths shut and the soft-spoken son of a murderer could 
       become a beloved Hall of Fame legend with a hidden past"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Luckman, Sid. 
610 20 National Football League|xHistory. 
610 20 Chicago Bears (Football team)|xHistory. 
650  0 Football players|zIllinois|zChicago|vBiography. 
650  0 Organized crime|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Immigrant families|zIllinois|zChicago. 
650  0 Sports|xCorrupt practices|zUnited States.