Dallas Cowboys: The Legends of America's Team 2nd Edition

by Jim Reeves, Mark Hoffer (Illustrator), Tom Johanningmeier (Editor)

Overview

Meet the characters and relieve the games and controversies that captured the imagination of the nation's sports fans. Updated with new chapter about quarterback Dak Prescott and the winning 2016 season.

Jim Reeves, for decades The Fort Worth Star-Telegram's award-winning sport columnist, goes behind the scenes to explain how the Cowboys battled for five Super Bowl titles, how Tex Schramm's creative genius forged them into America's Team, then become the richest NFL franchise under owner Jerry Jones.

There's star quarterback Roger Staubach inching out on an 11-the story window ledge to get Schramm's attention during contract talks.

Reeves discloses how he scooped quarterback Troy Aikman's deep disgust for coach (and party-animal) Barry Switzer, even during Super Bowl XXX victory celebrations.

Jerry Jones makes clear he now regrets how he fumbled the firing of revered, founding coach Tom Landry. Jones also relives the abrupt split with winning coach Jimmy Johnson, his former college teammate. Then Jones candidly discusses his team's future.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156748020
Publisher:	Berkeley Place Books (Great Texas Line imprint)
Publication date:	08/18/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Jim Reeves spent four decades as an award-winning sports columnist/baseball writer at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Afterward, he spent a year writing columns for ESPN.com and is now a freelance journalist.

Reeves is an honorary media member of the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame and a finalist for the 2017 J.G. Taylor Spink Award for meritorious contributions to baseball. The winner will be announced the first week of December at Baseball’s Winter Meetings at National Harbor, MD, followed by induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, during Hall of Fame Weekend next July, 2017.

Reeves was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his coverage of the sale of the Texas Rangers to a group headed by future President George W. Bush. He was presented the TCU Schieffer School of Journalism National Ethics Award in 2007, the first and only sports writer to ever receive that honor.
Reeves covered the Dallas Cowboys as a columnist extensively during the 1990s, when they won three Super Bowls.

He and his wife Karen live in Arlington with their two granddaughters, Savannah and Brianna, their four dogs and their four cats.