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Kiss 'Em Goodbye: An ESPN Treasury of Failed, Forgotten, and Departed Teams

Kiss 'Em Goodbye: An ESPN Treasury of Failed, Forgotten, and Departed Teams

THEYâ€™RE GOING, GOING, GONE. . . .
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Their names roll off the tongue, a litany of the damned: the Providence Steam Roller, the Wilmington Quicksteps, the Cincinnati Porkers. They are the lost squads of professional sports historyâ€”teams forsaken by fans, fleeced by owners, or forgotten by time. Until now.Â

Kiss â€™Em Goodbye unearths the real stories of dozens of vanished teams that once gracedâ€”and often disgracedâ€”North Americaâ€™s big leagues. Like the St. Paul Apostles, the only major league team never to have played a home game; Card-Pitt, the NFLâ€™s World War II doormat; and the Philadelphia Quakers of the NHL, a team owned jointly by bootleggers and a retired boxer who climbed back into the ring to help meet payroll.Â

In obituaries for both big-city franchises that skipped town (the Baltimore Colts, the Brooklyn Dodgers) and small-town teams that had their brief moment of glory (the Tonawanda Kardex, the Pottsville Maroons), Kiss â€™Em Goodbye commemorates mysterious fires, waterlogged basketball courts, fields tended by goats (â€œcheaper than mowers!â€), and uniforms that broke team budgets. Itâ€™s all here in a fascinating, hilarious, page-turning celebration of teams that prove itâ€™s not whether you win or lose, but that you once played the game.Â
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Country	USA
Author	Dennis Purdy
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Purdy, Dennis
EAN	9780345520128
Edition	0
ISBN	0345520122
Label	ESPN
Manufacturer	ESPN
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	384
PublicationDate	2010-02-23
Publisher	ESPN
ReleaseDate	2010-02-23
Studio	ESPN

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