{"product_id":"one-season-the-story-wallace-frist-9798181572904","title":"ONE SEASON - The Story of the Steagles","description":"Based on a true Story... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia and Pittsburgh have hated each other for a century. In 1943, the war forced them to share a football team.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen World War II drained the NFL's rosters, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles - bitter rivals who had spent a decade trying to beat each other - were ordered to merge for one season or fold entirely. The result was the Phil-Pitt Combine, quickly dubbed the Steagles by a Pittsburgh sportswriter who meant it as a joke. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNobody expected much. The Philadelphia Inquirer predicted two wins. The players were factory workers, 4-F draftees, and castoffs - men turned away by their country for flat feet, bad knees, and failing eyesight, who worked forty-hour shifts in defense plants before suiting up on Sunday afternoons. Their coaches despised each other. Their cities despised each other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey went 5-4-1. It was the first winning season in Eagles franchise history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Season\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of how twenty-two improbable men - blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, thirty-four years old and complaining about their chin straps - became something neither city expected and both cities needed. Set against the backdrop of wartime America, it is a novel about what happens when the wrong people refuse to be the wrong people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wallace Frist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181572904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Wallace Frist","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874758013183,"sku":"9798181572904","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/one-season-the-story-wallace-frist-9798181572904","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}