Bücher von Robert Riger

Robert Riger’s documentary of football in America highlights the careers and accomplishments of the nation’s best players from Curly Lambeau and Jim Thorpe to Sam Huff and Lennie Moore.The Pros is the story in pictures and words of all the great professional football stars who have made football America’s most exciting sport. From Johnny Blood, Cal Hubbard, Dutch Clark, and Mel Hein—the full roster of the Greats is too long to list, but this book covers them all. The magic and artistry of their performances are recaptured here in superb photographs, drawings, diagrams, and texts. The action-filled pages share a complete collection of games, players, greatest moments, and fond memories that will appreciated by pro-football fans of every age.

A complete and stunning collection of twenty years of work by one of the most well-known sports illustrators and photographers of the 90s, Robert Riger.As an illustrator, Robert Riger had his work regularly printed in publications such as Esquire, The Saturday Evening Post, and Sports Illustrated. When he began to take photos in 1950, what started as a research tool for his illustrations quickly evolved into the talent Riger is most known for. Now, for the first time ever, The Athlete features an entire showcase of Riger’s work, including writings, illustrations, and some of the more than 90,000 photographs he took over his time as a celebrated illustrator and photographer within the sports world.