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Semi-Pro History
About the Book
Packed with vivid game action, The Semi-Pros brings to life a throwback version of football played with uncompromising, hard-nosed passion.
In the early 1900s, independent football teams sprang up in the gritty factory towns of Americas heartland. The games these teams played served as diversions from the gray reality of industrial life. At the end of the century, one team still survives in an obscure western Pennsylvania town. The semi-professional Coalcrackers are tightly woven into the social fabric of Waylon as a result of their longevity and success. The teams past star players hold near-mythical status in the lore of the town. But Waylon and its once-mighty team have fallen on hard times. The sponsoring athletic club is even compelled to sell controlling interest in the team to fund the upcoming season. Then Mike Rader, the last of the Coalcracker heroes, returns. Cool and bold, Mike re-ignites an old romance with Leah Marciniak, an attractive, strong-willed reporter. Then he triggers a surprising chain of events that give the Coalcrackers and their hometown one last, come-from-behind chance.
About the Author
A graduate of West Point, Al Mrozek has written several articles for newspapers and magazines. He lived for awhile in the region that provides the setting for The Semi-Pros. Al currently resides in North Carolina with his wife, Gail, and their three children.
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