"Nothing Great Is Easily Won"- The Solomon Butler Story Kindle Edition

This book details the life of Solomon Butler, a black world-class athlete who overcame numerous racial issues throughout his high school, college, and professional athletic career in the early 1900's. Yet, through it all, he maintained dignity, class and character. Butler secured his own way to college, set numerous records at all levels he competed at, and represented the United States in the 1919 Inter-Allied Games (a military substitute for the cancelled Olympics) and was a participant in the 1920 Olympics. He was the second black quarterback in the NFL, playing for several of the early NFL teams. After his professional football career, he went on to do many sports related activities, such as forming men's and women's basketball teams, and barnstormed across the country playing football, basketball, and baseball. In his later years, he owned the contracts of several black boxers, working with their training and managing their bouts. There's not much Butler didn't do in his lifetime. Read more