Dallas Cowboys: The Legends of America's Team

''Who better to tell the 'Legends of America's Team' than Jim Reeves, one of the most trusted and reliable sources for your Cowboy news and history.'' -- Daryl ''Moose'' Johnston, former star Cowboys fullback (Sept. 6, 2016). Meet the characters and relieve the games and controversies that captured the imagination of the nation's sports fans. Jim Reeves, for decades The Fort Worth Star-Telegram's award-winning sports 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, and became the richest NFL franchise under owner Jerry Jones. Reeves tells how star quarterback Roger Staubach inched along an 11 story window ledge to get Schramm's attention during contract talks. Reeves discloses how he scooped the sports world to report quarterback Troy Aikman's deep disgust for coach (and party-animal) Barry Switzer -- even during Super Bowl XXX victory celebrations. In a lengthy interview for the book, Jerry Jones makes clear that he 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 Razorback college teammate. Then the owner candidly discusses his team's future.

''Jim Reeves was there through it all. He knows the history. He knows the people. He knows the team. And here it all is, an historical look at the Dallas Cowboys, an historical NFL franchise if there ever was one. We can go inside that history, thanks to Jim Reeves.'' --Randy Galloway, retired sports columnist for the Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and longtime talk show host. 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.