{"id":1877,"date":"2019-08-24T21:37:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T01:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/?page_id=1877"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:09:08","slug":"lou-sahadi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/hof\/lou-sahadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou Sahadi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\">\n<h3 class=\"lead\">Class of 1953<\/h3>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\"><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-4\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/HOF-Sahad-300x415.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot image of Lou Sahadi\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-8\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p>Lou Sahadi has written more than 25 sports focused books including a 2014 addition of\u00a0<em>100 Things Clemson Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die,\u00a0<\/em>published by Triumph books. Among his other books are\u00a0<em>Johnny Unitas: America\u2019s Quarterback, Pro Football\u2019s Gamebreakers, Steelers: Tears of the Decade, Miracle in Miami: The Miami Dolphins Story,\u00a0<\/em>and<em>The Long Pass,\u00a0<\/em>one of 250 books selected by Nixon Library. The\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0called Sahadi \u201cthe Super Bowl book king\u201d for his series about Super Bowls XIII through XVI. Sahadi was an independent magazine publisher and served as the editor\/publisher\/director of\u00a0<em>Pro Football Monthly Magazine, Pro Football Scene, Pro Boxing Scene, Pro Hockey Scene, Pro Baseball Scene, Pro Basketball Scene, and Argosy, a Men\u2019s Adventure and Expos\u00e9 Chronicle.\u00a0<\/em>His article about Phil Rizzuto (May, 1993) was acclaimed by Larry King in his\u00a0<em>USA Today\u00a0<\/em>column and spearheaded Rizzuto\u2019s induction into baseball\u2019s Hall of Fame the next year. In November 2000, Sahadi wrote a treatment regarding the 20<sup>th<\/sup>anniversary of the Marshall University football plane crash, and it became a one-hour special on ESPN. He is a 1968 Distinguished Service Award winner form the Marshall University Alumni Association.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 1953<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":1654,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-legacy.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1877","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1877\/revisions\/3132"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}