Blades, Bands, and Ballers: How “Flash and Cash” Rescued the Flyers and Created Philadelphia’s Greatest Showplace history Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles

Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1996

begging the question: will justice be served against a dangerous

He has worked for Philadelphia’s Department of Commerce

a native of West Virginia

Born to a wealthy family in Pittsburgh

Blades, Bands, and Ballers: How “Flash and Cash” Rescued the Flyers and Created Philadelphia’s Greatest Showplace history Drafted by the Philadelphia EaglesBlades, Bands, and Ballers is Lou Scheinfelds heartfelt memoir of an America gone, a world of local spectacle and national pride. Dubbed Americas showplace between its birth in 1967 and much lamented death in 2009, The Spectrum formed the citys and the nations prism, refracting a peoples dreams, fears and fantasies as sporting icons and cultural heroes thronged the ice, the stage and field of play. The Spectrum has one last story to tell how it came