Once a Cowboy

Walt Garrison

ISBN 10: 0394576853 / ISBN 13: 9780394576855

Published by Random House, New York, NY, 1988

About this Item

Random House, New York. 1988. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to boards; small fabric tear at head; slight spine roll, DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($16.95); bumping to head; light rubbing to panels. Red paper over boards with blue cloth overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering and decorations on the spine. 212 pp 8vo. This is the author's story of his football career and the building of the championship Dallas Cowboys of the 1960-70 period under coach Tom Landry. It is full of football stories, cowboy stories, and the hilarious characters he played with on the Dallas Cowboys. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Seller Inventory # 020553

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Once a Cowboy
• Publisher: Random House, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394576853
• ISBN 13: 9780394576855
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medical/Human Nature/Psychology
  • Autobiography
  • Football

About this title

Synopsis

The legendary Dallas Cowboys fullback vividly portrays the combination of talent, muscle, strategy, and sheer determination that led his team to eight straight playoff years and the colorful characters with whom he played the game

Reviews

Garrison is an archetypal Texan: he grew up in a small town there, became a rodeo rider at the age of 12, played for the Dallas Cowboys in the late '60s and early '70s, when the team had eight straight playoff years. And, with his delightful sense of anecdote, this memoir, coauthored with Tullius ( I'd Rather Be a Yankee ), is less the autobiography of a football player than a series of entertaining stories. We read wonderful reminiscences of Garrison's fellow players Don Meredith, Craig Morton, Dan Reeves, Mike Ditka and Bob Lilly, most of them involving wine, women, song and cards. The authors also present cogent arguments as to why Tom Landry is a coaching genius. With this touchdown book Garrison proves himself one of football's prime raconteurs. Photos not seen by PW.
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