ST. LOUIS, MO — Reedy Press is pleased to announce the release of our newest sports book, The Detroit Lions: An Illustrated Timeline, by Dave Birkett.
It took three failed attempts before professional football stuck in Detroit, and when it finally did, the city had itself a winner. George A. Richards bought the Portsmouth Spartans in 1934 at the height of the Great Depression, moved the team to Detroit and renamed it the Lions. A year later, the franchise won its first of four championships, and the city was hooked on football. The Lions won three more titles in the 1950s to form one of the NFL’s first dynasties and have spent most of the past seven decades trying to replicate that success to no avail.
In The Detroit Lions, An Illustrated Timeline, award-winning reporter Dave Birkett vividly recounts the most important people, games and moments of the franchise’s first 90 seasons, from the early days of Earl “Dutch” Clark, the team’s first superstar, to the 10 Hall-of-Famers who played for the team in the ‘50s, to the spine-tingling performances of Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson and the team’s resurrection under beloved head coach Dan Campbell.
Relive the Lions’ magical playoff run of 2023, their many postseason flameouts before that, the 0-16 season that was the low point in franchise history and Sanders’ remarkable pursuit of 2,000 yards. Go back to Johnson’s (non-)catch against the Chicago Bears and decide for yourself whether the Curse of Bobby Layne was real in an illustrated journey you won’t forget.
The Detroit Lions: An Illustrated Timeline is available wherever books are sold.
Book Details: The Detroit Lions: An Illustrated Timeline, by Dave Birkett, ISBN: 9781681065472, hardcover, 11 x 9, 176 pages, $42.00
About the Author
Dave Birkett is an award-winning sports journalist who has covered the Detroit Lions for the Detroit Free Press since 2010. A four-time Michigan Sportswriter of the Year, Birkett graduated from Michigan State before embarking on a storytelling career that also has had stops at the Northern Virginia Daily, Oakland Press and AnnArbor.com. He was named one of the top 10 beat writers in the country by the Associated Press Sports Editors in 2017, is one of 49 voters for the Pro Football Hall of Fame and is president of the Detroit chapter of the Pro Football Writers Association.
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