Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town
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Grove Atlantic, 2016.
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S. L. Price., & S. L. Price|AUTHOR. (2016). Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town . Grove Atlantic.

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S. L. Price and S. L. Price|AUTHOR. Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town Grove Atlantic, 2016.

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    [synopsis] => In the early twentieth century, down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company built one of the largest mills in the world and a town to go with it. Aliquippa was a beacon and a melting pot, pulling in thousands of families from Europe and the Jim Crow South. The J&L mill, though dirty and dangerous, offered a chance at a better life. It produced the steel that built American cities and won World War II and even became something of a workers' paradise. But then, in the 1980s, the steel industry cratered. The mill closed. Crime rose and crack hit big.

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