Carl M. Becker, Professor Emeritus in History at Wright State University in Dayton, has written or edited six previous books.
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Home and Away
The Rise and Fall of Professional Football on the Banks of the Ohio, 1919–1934
By Carl M. Becker
A history of semiprofessional football clubs in Ohio—the Ironton Tanks, the Portsmouth Spartans, and others—and an intimate study of how the citizens and organizations that made up these cities worked to put themselves on the map.