Author: RODGERS, Pepper
Title: Pepper! the Autobiography of an Unconventional Coach
Description: Garden City, Doubleday & Company, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter green cloth with yellow spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 176pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Superb first edition of this memoir by the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets college football star and coach (1931-2020). This unique copy bears tipped onto the front flyleaf (recto and verso) bold signatures on matching heavy stock 5" X 3" cards of four famed football friends of Rodgers: Recto, top to bottom: BILL CURRY (b. 1942, pro football center/linebacker from 1965-74 and head coach of the Yellow Jackets after Rodgers) signs in blue ballpoint, dating it 25 April 1975 at upper right; below him STEVE RAIBLE (b. 1954, Yellow Jackets star and pro football wide receiver 1976-81) signs in blue ballpoint, adding his Seattle Seahawks jersey number ("83") and dating it 1 October 1980 at upper right. Verso, top to bottom: RANDY RHINO (b. 1953, Yellow Jackets star and pro football defensive back 1975-81) signs in black ballpoint, adding "#23 Georgia Tech '74" below and dating it 8 May 1985 at upper right; below him STEVE SPURRIER (b. 1945, pro football quarterback/punter 1964-76 and 38-year coach, including the Yellow Jackets) signs in blue fineline, dating it 4 October 1976 at upper right.Laid in are all four original transmittal envelopes. Quite an unusual copy. .

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