A History of the Football: Preview

Those of you who have been around for a while will recall that I published daily Tidbits or articles for the first 660 days on this account, but I cut back in February, claiming I needed more time to work on longer-term projects. Since then, I have published something every other day on average, including the links to the weekly Pigskin Dispatch podcast/YouTube.

I am happy to tell you that I have used the extra time constructively and am nearing completion of the first in what I hope will be a series of short books drilling into the history of specific elements of football. I have some minor content issues to address, and I am working on the cover design and Bibliography and gaining permission to use certain images in the book. I hope to release paperback and ebook versions on Amazon within a few weeks.

In the meantime, I will start releasing a serialized preview of the book on Football Archaeology tonight. Since Substack limits the amount of text or images that can be sent in an email, the book will be broken into bite-sized chunks. I will serialize the full book, or about 130 pages, with each daily post equivalent to 5 to 7 book pages.

As usual, you will receive an email with each posting. Free subscribers will have access to the first few paragraphs, while Paid Subscribers can access the full post and access it any time under the Paid Subscribers tab. Of course, everything published in serial form is considered part of a draft version of the book until it is published on Amazon.