Browns Town 1964
Cleveland's Browns and the 1964 Championship
by Terry Pluto
- Format: Softcover, 320 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches
- Illustrations: 25 black-and-white photographs
- ISBN: 978-1-886228-72-6
- Price: $14.95
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Description
* First time in paperback *
In this nostalgic look at Cleveland's last championship team, sportswriter Terry Pluto tells the remarkable story of the upstart AFC team's surprise success over the favored Baltimore Colts and the colorful players who made that whole season so memorable.
Includes interviews with the players, including Jim Brown, Paul Warfield, Frank Ryan.
Reviews
- “Terry Pluto's engrossing book tells the tale of a team in flux . . . A great book not only for any fan of football, Browns fan or otherwise, but also for anyone who loves a good story, well told.” — Cuyahoga Falls News Press
- “The tough, blue-collar city of Cleveland loved its football team, the Browns (named after beloved coach Paul Brown). During their heyday in the late 1940s and 1950s, the Browns muscled their way into several championships and the hearts and minds of the fans. Even after change came in the 1960s with a new owner, Art Modell, and the forced retirement of Coach Brown, the team continued to flourish. When All The World Was Browns Town remembers those years, capped by the championship season in 1964, and juxtaposes this relatively innocent time with the present. Now the Browns are in Baltimore, moved by owner Modell, and renamed the Ravens. The money in big-time professional sports ultimately had its way with a town that was fanatical about football and its storied team.” — Amazon.com
- “In 1963, the Cleveland Browns's new owner, Art Modell, fired legendary coach Paul Brown. The next year new coach Blanton Collier led the team to the NFL championship--the last title any Cleveland pro team would win. Pluto tells of the team's season and dramatic win over the favored Baltimore Colts. He adds memories from Jim Brown, Frank Ryan, Bernie Parrish, and other key Browns. Collier would retire in 1970, and in 1996 Modell outraged the town and old players by moving the team to Baltimore. Like Steve Hubbard's Shark Among Dolphins, another tale of a coach's replacement, this is a good regional sports pick, for Ohio and elsewhere.” — Library Journal
About Terry Pluto
Terry Pluto is a sports columnist for the Plain Dealer. He has twice been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as the nation's top sports columnist for medium-sized newspapers. He is a nine-time winner of the Ohio Sports Writer of the Year award and has received more than 50 state and local writing awards. In 2005 he was inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame. He is the author of 23 books, including The Curse of Rocky Colavito (selected by the New York Times as one of the five notable sports books of 1989), and Loose Balls, which was ranked number 13 on Sports Illustrated's list of the top 100 sports books of all time. He was called “Perhaps the best American writer of sports books,” by the Chicago Tribune in 1997. He lives with his wife, Roberta, in Akron, Ohio. More About Terry Pluto
Contains References to:
1964 Football Championship, Art Model, Bernie Perrish, Bill Glass, Blanton Collier, Cleveland Browns, Dick Schafrath, Ernie Green, Frank Ryan, Gary Colins, Gene Hickerson, Jim Brown, Lou Groza, Municipal Stadium, NFL, Paul Brown, Paul Warfield