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The Most Memorable Games in Giants History - The Oral History of a Legendary Team - cover

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The Most Memorable Games in Giants History - The Oral History of a Legendary Team

Jim Baker, Bernard M. Corbett

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

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Summary

With extensive reporting and engrossing storytelling, Jim Baker and  
Bernard Corbett give us the scenes of one of the NFL's most successful  
and popular franchises. Interviews with Giants legends who participated  
in these historic moments put us behind closed doors in the  
commissioner's office during a fixed game in 1946, in the backfield wit  
Frank Gifford as the Giants advance to the championship in 1958, and in  
the huddle with Eli Manning as he diagrams the play that would result in 
 the deciding touchdown in the 2008 Super Bowl. 
With an eye for  
memorable details and historical significance, Baker and Corbett let the 
 players themselves tell the war stories that all Giants fans love to  
relive, and in so doing, construct an engrossing and exciting history of 
 the team and the sport. 
The book will also feature revealing  
statistical sidebars and fresh analysis of the games that throw new  
light on the history of the team.
Available since: 09/09/2011.
Print length: 384 pages.

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