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“Founding 49ers” Author Discussion w/ Former 49er Delvin Williams | SF

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Cost: FREE
Green Apple Books and Music | 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA

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Green Apple Books is welcoming Dave Newhouse, author of Founding 49ers, in conversation with former 49er Delvin Williams on Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 at 7 pm in our Granny Smith Room at the main store on Clement.

The San Francisco 49ers are among the most dynamic franchises, not only in the National Football League but in all of professional sports. They have won five Super Bowl titles and have produced some of football’s most dynamic players in Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, and Ronnie Lott, all of whom were coached by Bill Walsh, one of the game’s most innovative thinkers. The 49ers’ greatness came 35 years after the franchise began in 1946. During those years, they achieved no conference or league titles, even though they produced eight Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees, including the celebrated “Million Dollar Backfield.”

Offering a detailed look at the 49ers’ prolonged growing pains, from the 1940s through the mid-1970s, Founding 49ers focuses on that mostly unfulfilled time before the DeBartolo family rescued the franchise.

Author Dave Newhouse provides a fascinating look at the 49ers’ early years through the eyes of the players who gave the franchise its foundation. These mostly forgotten 49ers didn’t win like their successors, but they were highly entertaining, they broke down racial barriers, and they turned San Francisco into a major-league city. Founding 49ers captures the history of those pre-Walsh 49ers like no book before it. Dave Newhouse has written eleven books during a half-century career as an award-winning sports journalist and columnist, primarily at the Oakland (CA) Tribune. He first saw the 49ers play in the 1940s and then covered their rise to respectability in the 1970s and beyond. He lives in Oakland.

Drafted by the 49ers in the second round of the 1974 draft, Delvin Williams would have one of the best individual seasons for a running back in the franchise’s history to that point, and many of the best individual performances in the franchise’s history. In 1976, Williams ​ran for 1,203 yards, breaking ​49er ​Joe Perry’s single-season rushing record with the team​.​ He also set the team’s single-game rushing record at 194 yards, which stood for the next 22 years. He fondly remembers his playing days with the 49ers.

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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, 49ers, Literature, San Francisco, Sports & Wellness
Address: 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA