{"id":694,"date":"2018-12-31T13:29:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2018-12-31T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:29:49","slug":"texas-reads-archiveglenn-dromgoole-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

10.23.16\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dallas Cowboy legends profiled in new books<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Veteran sportswriter Jim Reeves,<\/span> who covered both the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers during his forty-year career with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,<\/span> has written Dallas Cowboys: The Legends of America\u2019s Team<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Berkeley Place Books, $9.95 paperback, 192 pages). Reeves recalls the team\u2019s glory years by focusing on the personalities who owned, managed, coached, and played for the Cowboys. He profiles the star players position by position, beginning with quarterback, then running back, wide receiver, tight end, and the linemen and defense.<\/p>\n

In the second part of the book, he replays the various championship games involving the Cowboys\u2014wins and losses. Longtime Cowboy fans will find much here to savor.<\/p>\n

Dallas Cowboy Hall of Famer Charles Haley<\/span> has written his autobiography, Fear No Evil: Tackling Quarterbacks and Demons on My Way to the Hall of Fame<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Triumph Books, $26.96 hardcover). Written with Dallas Cowboys historian Jeff Sullivan,<\/span> Haley tells his story from childhood to his retirement from football as the only player to earn five Super Bowl rings\u2014two with San Francisco, then three with Dallas. Besides the football stories and locker-room antics, Haley also tells about his struggles to overcome bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones,<\/span> in a foreword, gives Haley much of the credit for Dallas winning three Super Bowls in the 1990s. Jones said Haley was \u201cone of the premier pass rushers in the NFL. \u201cWe weren\u2019t complete until he arrived,\u201d Jones writes. \u201cWe went from a pretty good football team to one of the greatest dynasties the game has ever witnessed, and really the only difference between the two was Charles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Chicken Soup:<\/span> The \u201cChicken Soup for the Soul\u201d series continues to thrive, with about 250 titles now published. I suspect nearly every one of them includes a few stories by Texas writers. Certainly that\u2019s the case with two new volumes which came across my desk recently: The Power of Gratitude<\/span><\/a><\/span> and The Spirit of America.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In the Gratitude<\/span> book, at least three Texas writers have stories, including Trisha Faye<\/span> with her \u201cEvery Day Is a Good Day\u201d piece on how she taught herself to have a more thankful attitude at work.<\/p>\n

In the Spirit of America<\/span> volume, Dallas writer Eva Carter,<\/span> who was born in Czechoslovakia, has two stories \u2014 one about when she was a young immigrant girl in the third grade and one reflecting on the freedoms not shared by other women in the world. If you would like to submit a story for consideration by the Chicken Soup editors, go to chickensoup.com and click on \u201cSubmit Your Story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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