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By Ken Rappoport

ISBN-10: 1589794621

ISBN-13: 9781589794627

Wearing borrowed uniforms, training on vague university campuses, and led by way of a former Marine Corps W.W. II fighter ace as commissioner, the yank soccer League (AFL) debuted within the Fall of 1960 to problem the monopoly of the well-established nationwide soccer League. inside ten years it had gained large Bowls and had pressured a merger with its rival, splitting the NFL into the nationwide and American soccer meetings. This colourful heritage of the AFL and its unforgettable forged of characters, from Billy Cannon to Joe Namath to its "Foolish membership" of staff vendors, arrives at the fiftieth anniversary of the AFL's first season to recount the startling good fortune of an upstart league that prevailed opposed to lengthy odds.

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