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Pride & Poise: The Oakland Raiders of the American Football League |  | Author: James McCullough
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 106969
Media: Paperback
Pages: 260
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 142085979X
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9781420859799
ASIN: 142085979X
Publication Date: May 1, 2006
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Pride & Poise: The Oakland Raiders of The American Football League takes a definitive look into the formation and turbulent early history of the Oakland Raiders. Beginning with the hurried scramble to bring professional football to a city that couldn't provide a home for the team only to suffer through three losing seasons a combined 9-33 record with 19 consecutive losses. After plodding through three head coaches and an alarming player turn around before finding a young dynamo who transformed their club from a doormat rumored to move to another city willing to pour more funds into a prolific loser before having ever played in their home city to an immediate, nearly unstoppable winner. Relive the exploits of the Oakland Raiders in a week in, week out chronicle of their first ten seasons. Meet six unique head coaches and the legends who helped to make the transitions caused by age, injuries associated with football seamless and the whirlwind transformation of a young dynamo from coach to commissioner and ultimately to ownership as he built one of the most respected and feared organization in professional sports. Packed with statistics, transactions and forgotten lore, Pride and Poise: The Oakland Raiders of the American Football League is the most complete, accurate and fair account ever produced of the early Raiders, revisiting every game, win, lose or tie as they make the great journey from near oblivion to professional football's elite and its most dominating franchise.
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 Great Book! October 6, 2008
D. Daisey (Chester Heights, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great book for those who want to know about the beginnings of the Oakland Raiders and the American Football League (AFL). I had been a lifelong Raiders fan, but really learned a lot from this book.
 Useful but not as good as it could have been September 5, 2008
Thor (Valhalla)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'll be honest, while this is a very useful book, there is no authorship here. It is all newspaper articles compiled together from the 1960's. Though that is not obvious at first because there are no no labeling of sources, no footnotes, no bibliography, just a running stream of newspaper clippings disguised as authorship. I don't think James really knew how to put a book together and it is obvious he did not try to do it right. There is no way he wrote any of this unless he writes like a 1960's newspaper man.
Still, a handy reference for The Oakland Raiders of the AFL which substantial details is hard to come by.
 Good History February 23, 2008
Robert L. Bach (Alexandria, VA USA)
The book provided a great deal of history and detail on the Raiders and their early years. It takes a real fan of the AFC and the team to appreciate it.
The Beginning March 9, 2007
G. Kinst (Tracy, California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is extremely informative and well researched.It focuses on details,that untill now have been overlooked in other books on Raider Lore. A must for original Raider fans. Would liked to have seen more vintage photos.
Limey Raider November 29, 2006
P. Davison (Chelsea,London)
I loved the book,I have nearly every book written about the Raiders,many now out of print.This was a great read on a different slant.
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