"The Unforgettable Buzz is a thoroughly researched and cleverly written study of electric football. Every Baby Boomer who played the game - and that's all of us - will love this book." - Ray Didinger, Pro Football Hall of Fame Sportswriter and NFL Films Emmy Award Winning Writer and Producer "This is such a great book. It immediately took me back to those special moments of my childhood. Shores and Garcia have done their homework in opening a sacred portal to the past." - Rick Burton, David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management, Syracuse University The Unforgettable Buzz is the first and only book ever written on the topic of Electric Football. Yet it's about much more than just a game. It's about receiving the best Christmas gift ever - that's what Electric Football means to millions of Baby Boomers who grew up between 1950 and 1980. Authors Earl Shores and Roddy Garcia have spent over a decade carefully weaving the timelines of Electric Football, Baby Boomer culture, and the NFL into perhaps the most complete "toy story" ever written. With over 300 images and a stunning cover-to-cover design by Marvel Graphic Artist Michael Kronenberg, Christmas morning is always just a page-turn away in The Unforgettable Buzz.

The Unforgettable Buzz: The History of Electric Football and Tudor Games

Humor & Entertainment

Shores, Earl

Garcia, Roddy

Kronenberg, Michael

Puzzles & Games

One Way Road Press

Full Color Electric Football™ is an epic all-photo journey through the history of America's most iconic sports toy. It brings treasured childhood memories to life, using over 250 color images to create a collage of NFL dreams in miniature.
Displayed on page after glorious color page is the full legacy of Electric Football. All the best items from toymakers Tudor Games, Gotham, Coleco, and Munro, are included. Games and players are captured as they were, and also how kids imagined them to be.
Full Color Electric Football combines toys, NFL history, and American culture into a seamless visual display that transcends these individual parts. Not only does Electric Football become the stuff of our dreams, in Full Color Electric Football the game becomes art.

Full Color Electric Football

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

It's always Christmas morning in The Electric Football Wishbook™!
The Electric Football Wishbook is the first-ever compilation of Electric Football and sports game Christmas catalog pages. Packed with more than 70 full page and full color catalog images from the years 1955 to 1988, it’s a captivating chronicle of the toy industry’s "Golden Age." All of the major retailers are included -- Sears, Montgomery Ward, J.C. Penney, Alden's, and more. That means it’s Christmas morning over, and over, and over. And over. 
Over 140 Electric Football games are in the Wishbook, as are dozens of hockey, baseball, and basketball games. So you’ll never tire of turning its pages because there’s always something new to discover. Relive those long cherished Christmas morning memories with The Electric Football Wishbook!

Electric Football Wishbook: Sports Game Christmas Catalog Pages 1955-1988

Surf Lessons is a book from author and longtime East Coast surfer Earl Shores. It's stories of Ocean City, MD, the mid-Atlantic, the Outer Banks, and more...
 Put your toes in the sand and the wax in your hand as you drop into the pages of this vibrant set of surf stories from Earl Shores. It's a Top 20 of his best work, including favorites from his early days with Eastern Surf Magazine. And it's one of the few surf books ever written from a purely East Coast perspective.
 That means Surf Lessons isn't full of heroic gnarly surf dudes trekking the globe for perfect waves. Instead, Shores aims his focus on the ordinary moments of the surfing experience. After putting the reader in his “regular guy” flip-flops, he never fails to capture the passion that inspires surfers to rise before dawn to catch the uncrowded early morning calm.
 This is a book that all readers can enjoy.
 So even if you've never climbed into a thick wetsuit for a wintertime wave fix, you will still enjoy Surf Lessons. Just bring your sense of adventure and your sense of humor. And be ready to shake the sand from your trunks and the water from your ears as you turn the final page.

Surf Lessons: Stories Of An Eastern Surfer

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

The long-lost Playland Amusement Park comes back to life in Earl Shores' new book Playland: Greetings From Ocean City, Maryland. All the sights, sounds, and smells of this defunct, yet still beloved Eastern Shore landmark can be experienced in Shores' intimate on-the-ground account of the park's final summer. Want to take a last ride on the Hurricane, the only wooden roller coaster ever to exist in Ocean City? Or sit next to your wide-eyed child as they “drive” the spoke-wheeled Antique Cars? Spin majestically into the bayside night air on the Airborne ride? Hit the green gas pedal and throttle out onto “Ocean City's largest go-kart track?” Then step into the pages of Playland and back to the summer of 1980 as Shores skillfully puts the reader to work in the park for its fateful final season. "Playland takes you back to a time when Ernie's Donuts were always hot and delicious, the Admirals played at the Pier Ballroom, and a great amusement park existed on 65th Street. It's a great beach read!”- Hunter “Bunk” Mann, author, Vanishing Ocean City and Ghosts in the Surf Ocean City, Maryland was a very different place in 1980. Undeveloped lots existed along the beachfront, working “down the ocean” was still a summertime rite of passage...and a monorail-ringed amusement park sat on a westward pointing finger of land at 65th Street. That park was Playland. For the young people lucky enough to land a job at Playland, summers were pretty sweet. Running the rides on warm sunset nights as the park's flashing lights and the squeals of happy children filled the air was the stuff of fantasy. At least most of the time. Some rides, however, presented more challenges than others. This was something that author Earl Shores discovered quickly during his early days at Playland. And what seemed like the most perfect job in the world turned into something quite different - the summer-long roller coaster ride of his life. “Weaving two stories together, one from his childhood, the other as a young man working during the summer, Earl Shores brings Ocean City, Maryland to life, vividly, as it was during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.”- Sandy Hurley, Curator, Ocean City Maryland Life-Saving Station Museum “Playland far exceeds all expectations by transporting readers to a simpler time in Ocean City history, and our society in general. All OCMD local residents and tourists alike will get a kick out of reminiscing while enjoying this truly great body of work.”- Brandon Seidl, founder, Trimper's Haunted House Online, co-founder, The Bill Tracy Project, co-author, Trimper's Rides and Ocean City Oddities (2020) “Playland transports us back to a time when summers were magical and friendships were made and renewed year after year. The words put into motion an emotional ride that allows us to check-off a bucket list item that ceased to exist long ago. Read the book, close your eyes, and realize that ‘Playland’ still exists.”- Rick Machado, Playland alumnus 1976-80

Playland: Greetings From Ocean City, Maryland

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Forty years after its gates closed for good, the Playland Amusement Park comes back to life in Playland In Photos: Ocean City Amusement Park Memories. Overflowing with rare Playland images, the book takes readers on a time-travel journey back to the glorious Ocean City summer nights when a monorail-ringed amusement park sat on a western pointing finger of sand at 65th Street. Playland was a cherished landmark for millions of Eastern Shore visitors from 1965-1980. That's because it had something for everybody. The largest free parking lot in all of Ocean City; a Kiddie Land with an extensive collection of rides; the only wooden coaster in Ocean City; the warehouse-sized Ghost Ship dark ride; Ocean City's largest go-kart track; and shimmering bayside sunsets that no Crayola 64 box could equal. Especially when viewed from the elevated cars of the Sky Ride. Author Earl Shores first visited Playland as a child in 1965, and was mesmerized by the park. So, it was a dream come true when he landed a ride-running position at Playland for the summer of 1980 (an experience he recounts in his 2019 book Playland: Greetings From Ocean City, Maryland). From this "hands-on" time in the park Shores imparts a deeply personal perspective to Playland in Photos. He also enlisted the Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum, the National Amusement Park Historical Association, and the American Amusement Park Museum to contribute their expertise to the book. The result is the most authoritative account of Playland ever assembled, including a special section that explores what happened after the park closed in 1980. Don't miss the chance to relive cherished and simpler times in Playland In Photos!

Playland In Photos: Ocean City Amusement Park Memories

History

Americas

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