Review of
They
Pay Me to Catch Footballs! By Tommy McDonald
Four out of five stars
This is one of
the many Scholastic Book Services books that I read when I was in elementary
school. Few modern readers would know who Tommy McDonald was and he was out of
football when I first read it. Yet, it is still an engaging story, the
undersized boy and then man that started out in a small town and managed to
impress everyone with his speed and moves. It was a case of people being underwhelmed
by him due to his size until they saw him on the football field. He was
extremely fast, ran well-disciplined routes and was a student of the game. It
also helped that the man throwing the ball was generally a Hall of Fame
quarterback.
The book was
written in 1962, when McDonald had just emerged as a star wide receiver in the
NFL. It is an autobiography of his life and written at the level of the middle
school student. There are no great revelations or inside dirt on the NFL, just
the account of a man that made it in the NFL, one of the toughest, hardest professions.
It is easy reading and a look back into the NFL before it became the money-making
enterprise it is now.
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