Tom O'Lenic, Ray Hartjen

Immaculate (eBook, ePUB)

How the Steelers Saved Pittsburgh

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Pittsburgh was built on steeland almost destroyed by it.

Pittsburgh's vertically integrated steel industry was foundational in the growth of America, and it returned economic prosperity to the region for over a century. But when a myriad of domestic and global factors unsettled the local industry's competitiveness, the city suffered through economic turmoil.

The city of Pittsburgh found unlikely heroes in their traditionally also-ran professional football team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Reflecting the city's tough, hard-nosed, working class citizens, the Steelers rose to prominence and galvanized the community to persevere against the challenges of its deindustrialization transformation. Built of steel, then crippled by steel, Pittsburgh was eventually saved by the Steelers.

Immaculate: How the Steelers Saved Pittsburgh weaves together the historical stories of Pittsburgh and its beloved professional football team like the linear strands of DNAantiparallel, twisting throughout, and irrevocably connected together. Beginning with the history of the region, Immaculate weaves together the area's early history with the Steelers' origins, tracing the rise of the Steelers against the contextual backdrop of the steel industry's collapse and the city's unfolding crisis. The Steelers provided the foundational inflection point for Pittsburgh's New Economy to emerge and prosper.

Immaculate brings to life the colorful stories and people that shaped a city and a team over the rich tapestry of profoundly different eras.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Morgan James Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781636980553
• Artikelnr.: 66301848

Autorenporträt

Tom O'Lenic is an accomplished biotechnology executive, sports enthusiast and boutique winemaker, born in Donora, Pennsylvania and raised in Pittsburgh. His passion for competitive athletics was seeded in his youth in the Iron City, and fueled by his familyTom's father played minor league baseball, and his uncle was Baseball Hall of Famer Stan the Man Musial.

Tom is fascinated with history and how the past influences the future, or, in some cases, doesn't. His experience with the steel industry collapse of the mid-1970s was deeply personal, as his father, an engineer at U.S. Steel, was one of the many thousands of employees who were adversely impacted by the declining business.

Immaculate: How the Steelers Saved Pittsburgh is a passion project for Tom, who has long held the opinion the community of Pittsburgh steeled itself through its deindustrialization transformation with the galvanizing presence of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Tom currently resides in Pleasanton, California.