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From aSports Illustrated senior writer, a richly detailed history of Aliquippa football . . . A remarkable story of urban struggle and athletic prowess (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
In the early twentieth century, down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company built one of the largest mills in the world and a town to go with it. Aliquippa was a beacon and a melting pot, pulling in thousands of families from Europe and the Jim Crow South. The J&L mill, though dirty and dangerous, offered a chance at a better life. It produced the steel that built American cities and won World War II and even became something of a workers paradise. But then, in the 1980s, the steel industry cratered. The mill closed. Crime rose and crack hit big.
But another industry grew in Aliquippa. The town didnt just make steel; it made elite football players, from Mike Ditka to Ty Law to Darrelle Revis. Few places churned out talent like Aliquippa, a town not far from the birthplace of professional football in western Pennsylvania. Despite its troublesmaybe even because of themAliquippa became legendary for producing football greatness. A masterpiece of narrative journalism, Playing Through the Whistle tells the remarkable story of Aliquippa and through it, the larger history of American industry, sports, and life. Like football, it will make you marvel, wince, cry, and cheer.
Looks at the struggling steel town of Aliquippa, Pa., through the prism of its high school football team. The author understands the Rust Belt particulars of the region better than most political professionals. The Wall Street Journal

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Playing Through the Whistle looks at the struggling steel town of Aliquippa, Pa., through the prism of its high school football team. The author understands the Rust Belt particulars of the region better than most political professionals.
Wall Street Journal
Not only a thorough history of high school football in Aliquippa but also a meticulous chronicle of the labor movement and the rise and fall of industrial America Price gives Aliquippa a chance to tell its own story in these pages. And an important story it is.
Pittsburgh magazine
A great new book Like the best sports books, Playing Through the Whistle is more than sports. Its about history, its about geography, and most of all its about a place where the American Dream checked out a long time ago, and the only thing left behind is the echo of yesterdays cheers. A book that should be read by anyone trying to understand what is happening in todays America.
Providence Journal
Probably my favorite sports book of the year, even though sports are only part of the story.
Buffalo News (Best Sports Books for 2016)
Year after year, some of the best books about the human condition come from sportswriters, and S. L. Price has added another illuminating work to that list. Playing Through the Whistle is about football in the legendary western Pennsylvania steel town of Aliquippa, but so much more. It is an evocative, wistful journey through decades of American struggle and achievement and loss.
David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi and Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
Applause to S. L. Price for the mind-blowing research and gorgeous storytelling. Playing Through the Whistle is a sprawling display of Prices signature prose: sharp, vivid, and particular. You feel the heat of the blast furnace, the turf of the Friday night gridiron. With football as his lens, Price transports you to the glory days of an iconic American steel town, and envelops you in the saga of its ultimate demise.
Jeanne Marie Laskas, New York Times bestselling author of Concussion
S. L. Prices Playing Through the Whistle is a big book on a tough town. It reminded me of The Wire, which is high praise.
Roy Blount Jr., author of About Three Bricks Shy of a Load and Save Room for Pie
Playing Through the Whistle is an exhaustively reported and expertly written narrative about the rise and fall of industrial Americaand footballs central place in that story.
Stefan Fatsis, author of A Few Seconds of Panic and Word Freak
Playing Through the Whistle is a gut-wrenching portrait of a high school football team that has to embody the American dream for one small town, in large part because everything else that was supposed to do it has fallen apart. I would say this is some of the best sports writing I read this year, except that its some of the best writing Ive read this year.
David Epstein, author of The Sports Gene
Among S. L. Prices many interesting and well-crafted sentences is this: Heavy industry and football share the same DNA. If so, the progeny of big steel is, in fact, high school football. Even as mill life disappears, football lives remain. With deeply nuanced reporting, and a style thats both big-hearted and unsentimental, Playing Through the Whistle isnt merely the history of an American town, but American history itself.
Mark Kriegel, author of Namath and Pistol
S. L. Price paints a beautiful, painful portrait of Aliquippa and its football program in Playing Through the Whistle Prices book is a tale that can swing from triumph to heartbreak in almost the blink of an eye.
Pittsburgh City Paper
S. L. Price chronicles a richly detailed history of Aliquippa football An unvarnished decade-by-decade look at the town, the team and the synergy between them A fitting memorial to a remarkable story of urban struggle and athletic prowess.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For NFL fans, Aliquippa, Pa., is known as a town that produced more than its share of football greatness. In an attempt to get at why, this book delves into the history of football, the state and draws a larger picture about American history. A great read.
Toronto Star
Im impressed with the book and its wide-ranging look from the eyes of an out-of-towner I commend Price for his in-depth look into the history of the town and a special look at the sports side of it.
Beaver County Times
S. L. Price digs deep to report on Aliquippas intertwined history of steel and football Playing Through the Whistle is a history of a town but its more than that Price writes perceptively about racial tensions, crack cocaine and the violence that has scarred Aliquippa Honest, nuanced reporting.
News & Observer
[An] excellent book Price captures the glory days when Aliquippa produced not only steel, but also prominent Americans, ranging from Mike Ditka to Henry Mancini.
National Book Review
Price thoroughly explores the football saga but this is no mere sports story An artful mix of history, economics, sociology, and athletics Prices especially touching engravings of promise squandered, those chewed up and spit out by Aliquippas tough environment, contrast powerfully with the tales of football triumph Prices football story is really that of Americas Rust Belt in poignant miniature.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
[An] exhaustive history A more thorough account of any high school athletic program in the country would be tough to find.
Publishers Weekly
Price, a Sports Illustrated senior writer, tells the towns story all very well There are revealing anecdotes about individual players and the coaches Good stuff for Friday Night Lights devotees.
Booklist
Playing Through the Whistle is rich history In creative nonfiction journalistic style like that of Pete Hamill or Gay Talese Price dramatically chronicles [Aliquippas] rise and fall Playing Through the Whistle is an omnibus modern history of the United States as played out in the football ethos of small town Aliquippa, Pa.
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PLAYING
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Steel, Football, and an American Town
S. L. PRICE
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Copyright 2016 by S. L. Price
Cover design by Daniel Rembert
Cover photograph Dave Dicello Photography
Map ML Design, London
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