Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-498) and index

A distant fabled land -- The lower end -- Play ball -- Boy at the top of the stairs -- Pint-sized quarterback -- Magic -- Joey U -- Small-town hero -- Higher education -- The tower -- Colored water -- Stud -- Of southern comforts and the schoolhouse door -- Jimmy -- Sippin' -- Doylestown redux -- Harry Wismer's Titans of New York -- Sonny, as in money -- Happy New Year -- Four hundred grand -- Now appearing on Broadway: Mistress Meniscus -- Wampum -- Salted apples -- No guarantees -- Booze and broads -- Liar's poker -- The star system -- The beauty of Joe -- Bosses -- Student of the game -- Fu Manchu -- Disheveled but happy -- The points -- Super -- America's hero -- The undesirables -- The Joe Namath Show -- Bigger than the game -- The agony of defeat -- The score -- Nobody's perfect -- Don't trust anyone over thirty -- High concept -- Magic six -- Garden City Joe -- Hollywood ending -- That's entertainment -- Sound of the soul -- Deborah -- Old Joe -- Fiji -- Tatiana -- A Vincula Matrimonii -- Classic sports

Discusses the football star's upbringing as the son of a Hungarian immigrant in the steel country of Pennsylvania, his achievements at the University of Alabama, his career with the New York Jets, and his legendary status

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