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Albany, TX: Bright Sky Press. Near Fine. 2001. Trade Paperback. 184 pages .

New York: Thomas Dunne Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. 304 pages. Like Norman Maclean’s classic, <I>A River Runs Through It</I>, <I>Rose Bowl Dreams</I> is a memoir that transcends the limits of the sports genre to contemplate faith, love, grief and the challenges of fatherhood.Rose Bowl Dreams is the story of a family whose passion for college football begins at a small stadium in the remote Texas Panhandle and leads to college football’s most famous venue, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Rose Bowl Dreams develops parallel stories of a son and his mother, a crisis of faith, and three fraught football seasons that end in bittersweet triumph as the author follows the story of the University of Texas Longhorns between the time he discovers his mother has inoperable cancer and Texas triumphs in the National Championship Game over USC in what might well be the greatest college football game ever played. Along the way Jones lays bare… Read More

Ann Arbor, MI: Huron River Press. Near Fine. 2003. Expanded, Revised Edition. Paperback. Very slight edgewear/bend at bottom corners and edge. 222 pages. Includes Michigan Football Memories CD .