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Saskatchewan Roughriders: First 100 Years
344 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2009
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April 12, 2014
As a Rider fan there was a lot to love about this book. The best part by far is Bob Hughes' contribution on the Lancaster/Reed years. The way Hughes writes about the Riders makes you want to cry. I wish the whole book had been written by him. He will be missed.
The other contributors to this project did a decent job, but in places it feels like a list of game scores rather than an interesting narrative. I wonder if anyone bothered to proofread or spellcheck this book. I've never seen so many typos and errors in a printed work like this.
In all, this is a must read for the die-hard Rider fan or any fan of CFL football.
The other contributors to this project did a decent job, but in places it feels like a list of game scores rather than an interesting narrative. I wonder if anyone bothered to proofread or spellcheck this book. I've never seen so many typos and errors in a printed work like this.
In all, this is a must read for the die-hard Rider fan or any fan of CFL football.
May 6, 2024
not an easy book to find, but a treasure trove of interviews (especially first-person accounts from former general managers) from "everyone's second-favorite CFL team," the tinest of tiny-market underachievers (and, for decades, one of TWO teams nicknamed the roughriders, often in an 8-team league).
the good: bob hughes' writing (he's a sportswriter with genuine flair), lots of quotes and (especially in the final two chapters) a focus on the business and wheeling-dealing. the first chapter, adapted from a book on early football in saskatchewan, is also quite good.
the bad: this was a huge undertaking and i'm glad it exists, but all the tedious game recaps really slow one's reading pace to a crawl. oddly enough, the rear of the book doesn't have statistical tables showing all-time leaders or year by year performance.
even so, this is far in excess of what other cfl teams have (nothing, as far as i can tell) and lavishly-illustrated. minuscule font, but what can ya do?
the good: bob hughes' writing (he's a sportswriter with genuine flair), lots of quotes and (especially in the final two chapters) a focus on the business and wheeling-dealing. the first chapter, adapted from a book on early football in saskatchewan, is also quite good.
the bad: this was a huge undertaking and i'm glad it exists, but all the tedious game recaps really slow one's reading pace to a crawl. oddly enough, the rear of the book doesn't have statistical tables showing all-time leaders or year by year performance.
even so, this is far in excess of what other cfl teams have (nothing, as far as i can tell) and lavishly-illustrated. minuscule font, but what can ya do?
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