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	Vagabond Blues is an insider's peek at minor league football in the early '80s, an entire netherworld that most people never had the opportunity to see, let alone experience. It's a place where players hopped up on speed and painkillers injure one another for no other reason than because they can. They are drunks and drug-users, Vietnam Vets and NFL misfits, who try just as hard to keep the adrenaline rush going after the game Robbie Santos is a young man with dreams of NFL stardom thrust into this world. Over the course of one season with the Sumpter City Cougars, Robbie is forced to make decisions that could compromise his ideals, his football career, and his future. Do his choices change him or merely illuminate his true self?		Emmanuel Burgin's non-fiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, El Sol de San Diego, San Diego Weekly Reader, Rugby West Magazine, and Rugby News. His fiction has appeared in San Diego Writer's Monthly, Tidepools, Weavings, and Solstice Literary Quarterly. In 1981, Emmanuel was captain of the minor-league professional team, Twin City Cougars, and prior to that was under contract with the L.A. Thunderbolts.
	* San Diego Book Award Finalist. "A breathtaking read. Even if you're not a football fan the book offers a glimpse into a world totally unauthorized by the NFL and it's a worthy read for that alone. Recommended." -Espresso "Burgin's characters are, by turns, both brutal and endearing." -Void Magazine		"A smart, hard-hitting novel that will grab you and carry you into the heart of the players and the game." -Ken Kuhlken "A realistic portrayal of those men who are two inches too short or a half-second too slow, but who can't let go of the only identity that ever made them feel whole: Football Player. Beneath the riotous fun of this novel is an underlying sadness of desperation." -Ron Mix
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