Books about the Browns
Things I've Learned from Watching the Browns
by Terry Pluto
Here's a question for any Browns fan . . .
Why?
Why, more than four long decades after your team's last championship . . . despite a relentless pattern of heartbreak, teasing, and more heartbreak . . . capped with a decade of utter futility . . . do you still stick . . . [Read More]
The Browns Fan's Tailgating Guide
by Peter Chakerian
Now it's easy for any Browns fan to tailgate like a well-seasoned veteran. This book shares tips from Cleveland's top tailgaters— about where to, when to, and how to do it all, Browns fan style.
It also tells inspiring . . . [Read More]
Browns Scrapbook
A Fond Look Back at Five Decades of Football, from a Legendary Cleveland Sportswriter
by Chuck Heaton
Hall of fame football writer Chuck Heaton spent an incredible five decades covering the Cleveland Browns— the “ old Browns” teams that fans still miss. He reported on the Browns for the Plain Dealer from 1946 to 1993— nearly the entire . . . [Read More]
Heart of a Mule
The Dick Schafrath Stories
by Dick Schafrath
He won national football championships with the 1964 Cleveland Browns and the 1957 Ohio State University Buckeyes. He served four terms in the Ohio senate. He was the first person ever to canoe across Lake Erie. He ran sixty miles . . . [Read More]
False Start
How the New Browns Were Set Up to Fail
by Terry Pluto
It was supposed to be the dawn of a grand new era of football in Cleveland.
Instead, it was a rude wakeup call.
When the new Cleveland Browns took the field in 1999, legions of loyal fans— once heartsick, abandoned . . . [Read More]
The Toe
The Lou Groza Story
by Lou Groza
Back in print, with a new design. Lou “ The Toe” Groza played for the Cleveland Browns longer than anyone (1946-1967), becoming a beloved football icon along the way. His autobiography vividly recalls a golden age of professional football that spans . . . [Read More]
On Being Brown
What it Means to Be a Cleveland Browns Fan
by Scott Huler
What is this madness all about?
Anyone who has experienced it knows: being a Cleveland Browns fan is just different.
Why are we the only fans in the nation who ever demanded their team back— and got it? Why did . . . [Read More]