"Athletes Remembered:  Mexicano/Latino Professional Football Players, 1929-1970 is a decade by decade chronicle of the football heroes of the forties, fifties and sixties.  In these pages we learn of the accolades of Eddie Saenz, Lupe Joe Arenas, Primo and Danny Villanueva, Joe Kapp, Tom Flores, George Mira and Manny Fernandez.

The author has spared no research device to get this story of neglected Hispanic professional football players.  Longoria has scoured media guides, books, game programs, press releases, television programs, newspaper articles, public records and magazine articles to gather the facts, statistics and accomplishments of the football Latinos.

However, the personal revelations are taken from letters to, from and about these forgotten athletes.  Longoria describes the tribulations suffered by Latino football players and dwells on them long enough to give the reader an indication of how each particular athlete turned these burning and hurtful episodes into the fuel of success.  In addition, the personal interviews with some of the sports figures further personalize these Latino gladiators.

...This ambitious foray into the history of Hispanic athletes by Longoria is about success.  It is a book that links us with a proud heritage of participation in another facet of life in America often neglected by the historians of our country."

Excerpt reproduced by permission of the Laredo Sports Journal, Spring 1998.

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Other Football Titles of Possible Interest:

Buck, Ray. Jim Plunkett, the comeback kid. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1984.
JUVENILE BIOGRAPHY Plunkett

Flores, Tom. Coaching football. Indianapolis, IN: Masters Press, 1993.
796.33207 Flores

Flores, Tom with Frank Cooney. Fire in the Iceman: Autobiography of Tom Flores. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1992.
LATINO 796.33207 Flores Biography

Plunkett, Jim and Dave Newhouse. The Jim Plunkett story : the saga of a man who came back. New York: Arbor House, 1981.
796.33209 Plunkett

Prieto, Jorge. The quarterback who almost wasn't. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press, 1994.
LATINO 796.33209 Prieto
796.33209 Prieto