The Eagles Encyclopedia: Champions Edition: Champions Edition

by Ray Didinger

Overview

Ray Didinger, like every die-hard Eagles fan, has been waiting since the 1960 NFL Title for the Birds to win the Super Bowl. In this “Champions Edition” of The Eagles Encyclopedia, beloved Eagles commentator Didinger celebrates his team and their remarkable, against-all-odds season that ended at Super Bowl LII, where they claimed victory over the Patriots in Minnesota. 

Didinger updates his best-selling book The Eagles Encyclopedia with the departure of Coach Chip Kelly and the dawn of the Doug Pederson era. He provides a new chapter on the 2017-18 season and postseason. And he includes dozens of new player, coach, and front-office profiles as well as Hall of Fame updates on 2018 inductees Brian Dawkins and Terrell Owens. 

But wait, there’s more! 

• An all-new 16-page color insert highlights key moments on the road to the Super Bowl
• Iconic photos old and new, from Concrete Charlie Bednarik’s tackle of Frank Gifford to Nick Foles and the Philly Special
• More than 100 new photos from the recent season as well as from earlier periods in the Eagles’ storied history

TheEagles Encyclopedia: Champions Edition is more than a keepsake of a championship season. It is a book about a city and a team and the emotion that binds them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439918487
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	10/17/2018
Edition description:	1
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Ray Didinger was the first print journalist inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame. As a columnist for the Philadelphia Bulletin and Philadelphia Daily News, he was named Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year five times. In 1995, he won the Dick McCann Award for long and distinguished reporting on pro football, and his name was added to the writers’ honor roll at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He also won six Emmy Awards as a writer and producer for NFL Films. He has authored or co-authored eleven books including One Last Read: The Collected Works of the World's Slowest Sportswriter (Temple) and The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies. His play, Tommy and Me, about his friendship with Eagles Hall of Famer Tommy McDonald, was produced by Theatre Exile in Philadelphia and premiered in 2016. He is a football analyst for NBC Sports Philadelphia.

Robert S. Lyons (1939-2013) was the author of On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell and Palestra Pandemonium: A History of the Big Five (both Temple).

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements

1. A Passion Play: Philadelphia and Football

2. Professional Football in Philadelphia: The Early Years

3. Bert Bell and the Birth of the Eagles

4. Player Profiles

5. The Coaches

6. The Front Office

7. The Golden Years: 1948-49, 1960, 1980

8. The Andy Reid Era

9. The Super Season—2017

10. The Post-Season

11. The Hall of Fame

12. Milestone Moments

13. The Eagles—Cowboys Rivalry

14. The Stadiums

15. Sidelines

Appendix A: Year-by-Year Highlights

Appendix B: Stats, Records, All-Time Roster and Draft