Football Bibliography: A PFRA Project?

[John Grasso]

In a much earlier thread that I can't find right now, the possibility of creating a football bibliography was mentioned as a possible PFRA project. I commented that Anton Grobani edited a "Guide to Football Literature," published in 1975, and that it is obviously in serious need of updating, nearly 40 years later.

I just found the Grobani book on Amazon for $1.83 plus $3.99 postage and ordered it.

[oldecapecod11]

Here is the list of posters in the August 2014 thread concerning this.
For some reason, the bulk of the content is missing. It may be saved elsewhere?
Sorry it took so long to find this.

Used Book Sales
Started by TouchdownTimmy, Aug 17 2014 08:36 PM

#1 TouchdownTimmy
#2 Mark L. Ford
#3 Jeremy Crowhurst
#4 Rupert Patrick
#5 mwald
#6 nicefellow31
#7 rhickok1109
#8 Citizen
#9 mwald
#10 Mark L. Ford
#11 mwald
#12 mwald
#13 fgoodwin
#14 fgoodwin

#15 TouchdownTimmy
The thing I'm looking for is ways that we can help each other find books. That's all.

#16 NWebster (Responding to Timmy)
I do appreciate this. Again - like many others here I assume - i acquired much of what i had by the way of used book stores 20 years ago.

#17 NWebster
#18 John Grasso
#19 oldecapecod 11
#20 apbaball

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#21 Jeremy Crowhurst
#22 Jeffrey Miller
#23 evan
#24 PeterS
#25 Reaser

#26 John Grasso
Has there ever been a really comprehensive bibliography of football books published?
Is that a potential project for the PFRA?

#27 rhickok1109
Anton Grobani's Guide to Football Literature was published by the Gale Research Company in 1975. So far as I know, it's never been updated.
I think it would be a great project for PFRA.

#28 Moran
I just went through this exercise - had always entered my football books in an excel spreadsheet - title, author, publisher, date, "is it signed?" location, value, comments - but I still spent too much time searching to find a book I knew I had. So I ended up shelving them in alphabetical order by title with a notation if they were oversized and whether they were at home or in my office. It's been well worth the effort.
Home above, office below
First few books in database
10 Squad Talks by 10 Football Coaches Albert Richard Zuppke, intro 1930
10 Things a Boy Should Know How to Do Albert Richard Zuppke 1929
100 Greatest Sports Heroes Grosset & Dunlap Davis 1954
A Man Must Fight Houghton Mifflin Tunney 1932 signed by Tunney
AAFC All American Conf 1944 - 1950 Thompson Thompson 2011
All America Football Team Collier's Rice 1929
All American Mid week pictorial 12/25/24 Danzig 1925
All American Colliers 1926
All American Boys' Life 1930
All American Colliers 1930
All American football handbook Esso 1939
All Pro The Modern Years PFRA Turney 1999
All Pros the First 40 Years PFRA Hogrogian 1995
All Time Stars Football Backs Eastern Corp Rice 1953
Alumni News Emporia State College 1927
Amateur Sport Harper's Weekly Whitney 1899
Amateur Sport Harper's Weekly 1898
American Football Harper Camp 1891 rough shape
American Football Harper Camp 1891 solid first edition
American Football Harper Camp 1891 two plates are loose
American Football Harper Camp 1893 solid second edition

#29 Shipley

#30 JohnMaxymuk
I think it would be a great project for PFRA.
Myron Smith published a more robust one on pro football i think in the 1990s. I spent a good portion of last year reading every book dealing with the pro game published prior to 1970 and learned a lot, but never turned it into anything.

#31 fgoodwin
When I compiled my original list of Dallas Cowboy Books in 1995, I consulted (and cited) four critical bibliographic sources:
1. The Pro Football Bio-Bibliography (1989) by Myron J. Smith, Jr.;
2. Professional Football: The Official Pro Football Hall of Fame Bibliography (1993), also by Myron Smith;
3. Guide to Football Literature (1975) by Anton Grobani;
4. Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Football (1987) by David Porter.

#32 mwald
#33 fgoodwin
#34 JWL

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