Blades, Bands, and Ballers: How Flash and Cash Rescued the Flyers and Created Philadelphia's Greatest Showplace

Imagine Philadelphia without its beloved Flyers and Spectrum. It almost happened! Until Lou Scheinfeld and Ed Snider, otherwise known as "Flash and Cash," came together to help save the city from disaster. Blades, Bands, and Bailers is Lou Scheinfeld's heartfelt memoir of an America now gone, a world of local spectacle and national pride. Dubbed "America's Showplace" between its birth in 1967 and much-lamented death in 2009, the Spectrum has one last story to tell: how it came to be, how it...