Thanksgiving 1959 is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of NY city's first official schoolboy championship football game. Thanksgiving 1959 is the story of the players and coaches in that game and the surrounding community.
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Jay Price is an award winning columnist for the Staten Island Advance. He has covered the World Series, the Masters, U.S. Open, Final Four, and the 25 Super Bows and was a featured writer for Sport magazine.
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This review is from: Thanksgiving 1959: When One Last Corner of New York City Was Still Part of Small-Town America (Hardcover)
Jay Price's book "Thanksgiving 1959'' turns back the clock to a long-gone era, when athletes played for the love of the game. I couldn't put down this fascinating story about the people involved in New York City high school football in what then was a much different Staten Island than it is today. Mr. Price is a great storyteller, but he demonstrates David Halberstam-like reporting skills in this sterling effort! From interviews with people like Wellington Mara on the early days of the NFL (when the New York Giants made the short trip to Staten Island to play games!) to the forward by Bobby Thomson of "Shot Heard Round the World'' fame, this is a tremendously creative book. Those who love the essence of sports will love this book.
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This review is from: Thanksgiving 1959: When One Last Corner of New York City Was Still Part of Small-Town America (Hardcover)
Thanksgiving Game 1959 When One Last Corner of New York City was Still Part of Small Town and High School Football was the Last Thing Guys did for Love by Jay Price is an excellent read for both men and women growing up in the 1950's and who love sports, all kinds of sports, but especially football. I mostly recommend Price's book to all Staten Islanders because there are lots of names, places and people they will surely recognize. The book covers quite a span of years up to the present time and brings back very pleasant memories of a time and place when everyone knew everyone else and small time towns were very important to growing up.
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This review is from: Thanksgiving 1959: When One Last Corner of New York City Was Still Part of Small-Town America (Hardcover)
Was sent this book as a gift. Having left Staten Island years ago with many wonderful memories, I'm always a sucker for a retropsective. But I was surprised I was so moved by Jay Price's book, Thanksgiving 1959. Anyone who is devoted to the exellent TV show about high school football in Texas, Friday Night Lights, will love this book. Staten Island in 1959 was small-town America, and its annual Turkey Bowl between Curtis and New Dorp High may have marked the high point of an era that was nearing its end, and not only in football. The mainly Irish and Italian kids who made up the two teams (and most of the other teams on Staten Island)forged friendships and created a history that would have been unthinkable to their grandparents, many of whom viewed their ethnic rivals with suspicion (and busted each others' heads off the playing fields). The names of the coaches and their players tell it all: Somma, Ryan, Barberi, Boylan, Fugazzi, O'Connell, Trucelli. They would all soon see their beloved borough change when the Verranzano Bridge destroyed (there is no other word for it) Staten Island's uniqueness. And the boys were heading into a society about to be riven by the most divisive war in our history. This book is about more than a football game. It's about people of character, at a lost time in our history.
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