Buckeye Books

[OhioState001]

So its offseason, and over the past few weeks I have been reading buckeye books. I have read alot of them and was wondering if anyone had some suggestions of a buckeye book to read. Not one about Jim Tressel Im pretty sure I have read all of those.

 

[jlb1705]

 

[Buckeye Maniac]

Agree with both of the above, and submit this to the list. Best three OSU books I've read.

 

[OhioState001]

Thanks will look into them!

 

[Bucklion]

I didn't care for Hunter's Harley book as much...I think the other one is better. I'd recommend Shot at the Rose to the Bite of a Gator as well...it chronicled the last 3-4 years of the Woody era.

 

[cincibuck]

I liked the Harley book as it gives you much of the history to Ohio Stadium and the reason Ohio State moved to the top of the college football ranks. Also a sad testimony of the life of a man who could have been one of the greatest players ever, a man with the ability to outplay Red Grange.

 

[Bucklion]

I liked the Harley book as it gives you much of the history to Ohio Stadium and the reason Ohio State moved to the top of the college football ranks. Also a sad testimony of the life of a man who could have been one of the greatest players ever, a man with the ability to outplay Red Grange.

Yeah I meant the other major Harley book (forget the author), I just don't care for Hunter's writing style. Either way, he's definitely a good person to read about.

 

[jlb1705]

I loved the Harley book by Hunter, but I don't really have another to compare it to. Regardless, reading about Harley should be mandatory for anybody who wants to call themselves a Buckeye fan. We revere Archie Griffin - and deservedly so. Without Harley though, there's probably no Archie Griffin, no Ohio State football and no BuckeyePlanet. All of this grew at least in some small part out of what that man did on the football fields of Columbus.

The 1968 book is great too - especially for somebody like me who was born a generation too late to witness that season. I'd be interested to hear a take on it from somebody who followed the team that year. It seems like it would still be a good read from that perspective too. Nowadays hear everything about our team almost as it takes place. That probably wasn't nearly the case back then, and this book seems to have a lot of that kind of information and storytelling. The only problem I saw with the 1968 book is that it is rife with errors - the publisher really dropped the ball in editing.

 

[Jagdaddy]

I'll assume you've read "They Call Me Assassin"?