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Gridiron Legacy brings the story to light for the first time with a treasure trove of new research and never-before-published photographs from the career of one of the game's early champions. It is the greatest sports story never told.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor Gregg Ficery is the great-grandson of the 1906 professional football world champion Massillon Tigers captain Bob Shiring, who was regarded by many as the greatest center of the pre-NFL professional era. Ficery grew up in a Pittsburgh suburb and learned stories about Shiring's football career from his grandmother. In the 1970s, she showed him that one of the pictures of her father's Tigers that hung in her home was featured in Robert Leckie's 1965 book The Story of Football. So Ficery knew from a young age that Shiring and his teams were vital to the game's history and that “one day” there would be much more to be learned. 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