Playing for a Hoagie and a Beer: Life on the Outer Fringes of Football with the Semipro Central Pennsylvania Whitetail Bucks

As the years have fallen away, the memories still remain vivid among the players, coaches and fans who loved and cheered the Central Pennsylvania Whitetail Bucks in the mid-70s. Author Mark Speck tells the story through the eyes of the players themselves. The Bucks were a colorful group with varied personalities and backgrounds, but all with a deep love for the game. The team was composed of some of the area's most outstanding and well-known players who had carved out record-setting performances during their earlier playing days. Some had gone on to NFL tryouts, to military tours in Vietnam, to the steel mills of Johnston, the railroad shops of Altoona and the coal mines in Philipsburg, but they all returned to their one love--semipro football and the Whitetail Bucks.