{"id":8525,"date":"2021-06-09T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=8525"},"modified":"2021-06-09T10:42:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:42:01","slug":"357s-not-iron-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/357s-not-iron-duke\/","title":{"rendered":"357S: NOT “Iron Duke”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Around 1952\u201354, I read just about every John R. Tunis baseball book I could find. Then, having exhausted Mr. Tunis\u2019s baseball output, I checked a football book out of the library. All these years, I have thought Tunis wrote it, and that its title was Iron Duke<\/i>. Now I suspect both memories are wrong because …<\/p>\n

A) I see no such book by Tunis.<\/div>\n
B) Iron Duke<\/i> appears to be about track.<\/div>\n
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So here is what I think I do<\/u> remember correctly about the book I\u2019d like to find:<\/div>\n
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Unlike all the baseball books I had read, the one I am seeking was written in first person. The narrator is some sort of recruiter of football talent for a college. He hears about a big, strong player in a backwoods part of the country, such as rural Pennsylvania, and goes to scout him. With questions about whether the player can fit into a collegiate environment, the narrator of the story takes a chance on the kid. (Maybe he doesn\u2019t even have proper shoes.)<\/div>\n
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Do you see where this is going? The rube blossoms as a player and person and turns out to have a brilliant football mind, often figuring out, for example, based on the way the offensive players line up, what sort of play they are going to run.<\/div>\n
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I had settled on the football book out of desperation, and wound up loving it. But now I don\u2019t know who wrote the book or if the title was in any way similar to Iron Duke<\/i>.<\/div>\n
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Given that my clues are skimpy\u2013\u2013and that what I had always thought I’d remembered clearly seems to be incorrect\u2013\u2013you have your work cut out for you.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Around 1952\u201354, I read just about every John R. Tunis baseball book I could find. Then, having exhausted Mr. Tunis\u2019s baseball output, I checked a football book out of the library. All these years, I have thought Tunis wrote it, and that its title was Iron Duke. Now I suspect both memories are wrong because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,19],"tags":[134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8526,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}