Vagabond Blues

By Emmanuel Burgin

Vagabond Blues is an insiders’ peek at minor league football in the early 1980’s where Robbie Santos, a young man with big league aspirations, is thrust into a world with NFL castaways, Vietnam Vets, drunks and drug-users who are all trying with frantic efforts to rise above the decadence and be noticed. Over the course of one season playing with the defending Minor League Football Champion Sumpter City Cougars, Robbie is forced to make decisions that could compromise his ideals, his football career, and his future.

"Burgin’s characters are by turn, both brutal and endearing. He is a relentless and impassioned storyteller.” Void Magazine

“Beneath the riotous fun of this novel is an underlying sadness of desperation.” Ron mix, NFL Hall of Fame Offensive lineman with the San Diego Chargers. Member of the Sports Illustrated All-Century Team

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publisher Hickey & McGee
• Release date: Aug 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005006631

Emmanuel Burgin

Emmanuel Burgin is an author and former sports editor for El Sol de San Diego. Colleen M. O'Connor is a native San Diegan and retired college professor. Susan Wachowiak is a retired educator and lifelong history enthusiast.

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