For the Love of the Buckeyes: An A-to-Z Primer for Buckeyes Fans of All Ages

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Expressing the passion felt for the Buckeyes using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, thistribute to the Ohio State football team explores the sports obsession in a fresh and humorous way. Readers will enjoy fun facts and amusing illustrations of some of the most famousand infamouscharacters in Ohio State history, including Hopalong Cassady, Eddie George, Archie Griffin, Woody Hayes, Troy Smith, Chris Spielman, Jack Tatum, and Jim Tressel.

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Frederick C. Klein is a longtime writer and editor for the Wall Street Journal, where he originated the On Sports column. He is a freelance writer and the author of many books, including several other entries in the For the Love of . . . series. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mark Anderson is an illustrator whose work has appeared on the back cover of National Geographic, the New Yorker, and Time and inside the Atlantic Monthly, BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, Outside, and many other periodicals. He is the illustrator and designer of Triumph Books' popular For the Love of . . . series. He lives in Chicago. Archie Griffin is a former running back for the Cincinnati Bengals. He won four Big Ten Conference titles with the Ohio State Buckeyes, was the first player ever to start in four Rose Bowls, and is college football's only two-time Heisman Trophy winner.