World Football League Encyclopedia

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by Tod Maher & Mark Speck

List Price: $29.95 (Paper), $39.95 (Hard Cover)
ISBN: 978-1-878282-40-8 (Paper),
ISBN: 978-1-878282-41-5 (Hard Cover)

Although it lasted less than two years (1974-1975), the World Football League left few records of the teams and player achievements.

…and a dollar short

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The Empty Promises, Broken Dreams
and Somewhat-Less-Than-Comic
Misadventures of the 1974
Florida Blazers
by Mark Speck

List Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-878282-77-4

It’s a great unwritten story that has finally been written! It’s an unforgettable story that shouldn’t be forgotten!!

It’s a story of triumph, loyalty, sacrifice, and just plain old stubbornness. It’s a story of men overcoming almost overwhelming odds and a laundry-list of hardships, problems, and distractions that never turned them from their ultimate goal, the league championship.

Nothing But A Brand New Set of Flat Tires:

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The Sad, Sorry Saga of the 1974 Detroit Wheels of the World Football League
by Mark Speck

List Price: $24.95
ISBN: 973-1-937943-47-9

Detroit’s pro football history is alive with the names of many wonderful heroes from a colorful past … Benny Friedman, Jimmy Conzelman, Potsy Clark, Buddy Parker, Bobby Layne, Joe Schmidt, Night Train Lane, Dick LeBeau, Barry Sanders, Bubba Wyche, Sheldon Joppru, Wimpy Winther…

Wait … Bubba Wyche? Sheldon Joppru? Wimpy Winther? Don’t recognize them?

Playing for A Hoagie and A Beer

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Life on the Outer Fringes
of Football with the Semipro
Central Pennsylvania Whitetail Bucks
by Mark Speck

List Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-937943-36-3

As the years have fallen away, the memories still remain vivid among the players, coaches and fans who loved and cheered the Central Pennsylvania Whitetail Bucks in the mid-70s. Author Mark Speck tells their story through the eyes of the players themselves.

WIFFLE

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The Wild, Zany and
Sometimes Hilariously
True Stories of the
World Football League
by Mark Speck

List Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-937943-24-0

The decade of the 1970’s was a unique, fascinating, depressing and exciting period all at the same time. It was a turbulent time that saw many history-making events, and some wild and crazy fads and fashions come and go. A lot of things associated with the 1970s, such as bell bottom, leisure suits, Jimmy Hoffa, pet rocks, lava lamps, mood rings, Nehru jackets, and disco, music, didn’t survive that turbulent decade. Neither did the World Football League.