Electric Football History & Tudor Games: Evolution, Nostalgia & Collectible Fun | Perfect for Game Rooms, Sports Memorabilia Collections & Retro Gaming Enthusiasts

In a thoroughly researched and comprehensive book covering 37 chapters and 652 pages, authors Earl Shores and Roddy Garcia have brought us the long-anticipated inside story of how professional football -- the NFL -- Brooklyn's humble Tudor Metal Products Co. and a generation of American youngsters came of age together under the banner of Tudor NFL Electric Football.While combining the history of college and professional football and its many and colorful landmark events, Shores and Garcia reveal how Norman Sas, the chief executive of Tudor, and Lee Payne, a talented industrial designer, shared a vision for realistic football in miniature. The result was Tudor NFL Electric Football, which captivated kids and adults alike, and for many years was the NFL's biggest revenue-producing licensed product. In the world of toy manufacturers, Sas and Payne were innovators and game-changers.There is much more to this incredible success story -- including how the individual NFL and AFL (later the AFC and NFC) teams were produced and hand-painted -- and the fierce competition Tudor faced with Gotham Pressed Steel Corp. and other football game manufacturers. Whether you're a student of college and professional football history, an electric football coach, a toy collector, or if you just want to re-live those holiday and birthday memories of your first electric football game, this book is for you.Shores and Garcia, with design by Michael Kronenberg, have picked up the felt football and run with it, producing a richly detailed and thoroughly enjoyable book that you'll find yourself frequently referencing. It's that good and that informative.