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When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore | 
 enlarge | Author: William Gildea
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 344910
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 311
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0395621453
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.33264097526
EAN: 9780395621455
ASIN: 0395621453
Publication Date: October 1, 1994
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In this moving book, William Gildea evokes the spirit of 1950s America, when major league sports players were hometown heroes. As a boy, Gildea attended nearly every Colts game with his father; together they watched the Colts become one of the greatest teams in the history of the NFL. The Colts were an integral part of Baltimore's culture and identity. When the team was moved to Indianapolis in 1984, Baltimore never felt the same.
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 When The Colts Belonged To Baltimore October 30, 2007
For someone growing up in Baltimore in the 50's ,this brought back great memories .The '59 Championship game against the Giant ,which I can remember watching with my father.The players who were members of the Baltimore neighborhood ( Johnny Unitas got his hair cut at my barbershop).Sunday was Colt football from morning when everyone went to their neighborhood bar,then got on buses to the stadium and after the game came back to the bars.With no real college football team in Baltimore, the Colts were everyone's team .I grew up blocks away from the stadium.This book brings back all these memories.It is a great read .
Very good read July 17, 2007
I agree with one of the posts in that the author does have a tendency to focus on his life a bit, but taken in the context of just how much the Colts meant to his family during that period of time, it's understandable to a degree. However, the best thing about the book is the individual stories (Gino Marchetti & Alan Ameche especially) as to how players during that era were real human beings who were elbow to elbow with the working class public on a day to day basis; not the pompus, self-indulgent & ego-centric clowns of today's sport scene.
When you compare the game of yesteryear to that of today's NFL with the constant in your face marketing and overcommercialization, the greed and waste of public money to subsidize the new palaces for the spoiled and calloused athletes of today, it truly does make you wish that time had stood still and remained as it did in the 1950's.
 Barely worth the time to read September 19, 2006
The book talks too much about the author's life and his father. Very little about the games. Some of the material is based upon interviews with former Colts that were conducted for the author. Some of the information about the Colts before 1952 (when they were the Dallas Texans), and particularily the Colts of the AAFC I had not heard before, but it makes up just a few pages of the book.
The Baltimore Colts are the best memories I have April 10, 2006
I"ve been in love with the Colts (no need to add Baltimore - since they stole away in the night I have referred to that other team as the Indianapolis Irsays)since childhood. This book allowed me to relive it all. And it made me so very nostalgic. Players who were part of the community. Crime going down when the Colts played. Gino Marchetti - nothing needs to be added to that name. The joke in my family was that my mom went into labor with me at a Colts game. I was her first child and she knew the labor would be long so she stayed for the end of the game (which we won). Folks not from Baltimore find that story odd. Anyone from the Baltimore Colts days takes it completely in stride....of course you would wait for the end of the game. Union Memorial Hospital is only a couple of blocks away. And my very first memory is of the 1958 champsionship game with the Giants. We we all faithfully gathered around our TV with the adored baby (me) in the seat of honor on the floor surrounded by doting adults and stuffed animals. Until the cable went out and I experienced total abandonment! Dad went out the back door to see if the neighbor's TV had gone blank, mom went out to the car to try to tune in the game on the radio and grandmother streaked upstairs to find her radio. I wailed! Where had the good guys (the Colts) disappeared to? As I said, I was ALWAYS a fan! Thank you so very much for these memories Mr. Gildea! This book is a treasure!
Absolutely beautiful ... December 8, 2005
A wonderful diary about not only a great, "hall of famer" loaded team (the Old Baltimore Colts) but a very supportive city - and the partnership that they forged.
It just ain't the same anymore.
For a "complete" Colts' book collection get this one, "Sundays at 2:00 with the Baltimore Colts," and anything with the name of John Steadman on it.
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