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Illuminates the complex interplay of race relations, sports, and religion in Wilbert Montgomery's heroic accomplishments in West Texas and beyond.

Clyde 'Bulldog' Turner was an early lynchpin of the Chicago Bears and the NFL and one of the greatest linemen of the pre-television era. Fame, however, did not stick to Bulldog Turner because the positions he played rarely made headlines. Remembering Bulldog Turner brings an NFL great into the limelight he never enjoyed as a player.

This anthology expands upon the significance of sport in US Latino communities by looking at sports as diverse as drag racing and community softball, the rise of Latinas in high school.

LaVern Roach, a skinny kid from the small town of Plainview, Texas, rose from obscurity to become one of boxing's most popular figures during the 1940s. West Texas Middleweight is the story of Roach's all too brief journey from a West Texas amateur, to enlistment in the US Marines, to becoming a Madison Square Garden main eventer.

At the outset of summer break in 1959, Texas Tech senior Jerry Craft got a telephoned offer to play for a semipro baseball club he'd never heard of. When he reported for tryout he discovered he'd been recruited for the West Texas Colored League. Out of his two seasons with the Stars comes an unlikely story of respect, character, humour, and ultimately friendship.

Traces football's passing game from its inception to the present, telling the tale through the stories of the quarterbacks whose arms carried (and threw) the changes forward. Lew Freedman relies especially on the biography of "Slingin' Sammy" Baugh, who hailed from Sweetwater, Texas, as a framework.