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Subtitled: "History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse" by S.L. Price.
It was published on May 20, 2025, and received a very favorable review in the Wall Street Journal on May 24, 2025. Listed as 560 pages, it has extensive notes and index. I've barely scratched the surface of it and having been skipping around reading what it says about Syracuse University and various SU alums. It includes in the center 8 pages of 27 photos starting with a photo and an "Engraving of a match between the Iroquois and Canada in 1876", and ending with a photo of "Air Gait". I recommend the book to anyone interested in the history of lacrosse and it's place in American and Canada. Of particular interest to SUFans -- on page 266 is four paragraphs on what led to and resulted in "The Lost Trophy" including a quote from Roy Simmons, Jr (who the author interviewed): "Well, the Friends of Syracuse Lacrosse are guilty of taking it," Simmons Jr. said. " I don't know how they got it, and I don't know where it is. And that's my answer to the NCAA." Many SU alums are mentioned, including, of course, Jim Brown, the Gaits, the Powells, and the Simmons family. The first page of the book's Preamble includes the following sentence: "Once confined to leafy patches of Baltimore and New York and schools draped in ivy, real and symbolic, it burst those boundaries long ago, and has spent the early 21st century reveling in its status as America's fastest-growing sport and yearning to become its Next Big Thing."
It was published on May 20, 2025, and received a very favorable review in the Wall Street Journal on May 24, 2025. Listed as 560 pages, it has extensive notes and index. I've barely scratched the surface of it and having been skipping around reading what it says about Syracuse University and various SU alums. It includes in the center 8 pages of 27 photos starting with a photo and an "Engraving of a match between the Iroquois and Canada in 1876", and ending with a photo of "Air Gait". I recommend the book to anyone interested in the history of lacrosse and it's place in American and Canada. Of particular interest to SUFans -- on page 266 is four paragraphs on what led to and resulted in "The Lost Trophy" including a quote from Roy Simmons, Jr (who the author interviewed): "Well, the Friends of Syracuse Lacrosse are guilty of taking it," Simmons Jr. said. " I don't know how they got it, and I don't know where it is. And that's my answer to the NCAA." Many SU alums are mentioned, including, of course, Jim Brown, the Gaits, the Powells, and the Simmons family. The first page of the book's Preamble includes the following sentence: "Once confined to leafy patches of Baltimore and New York and schools draped in ivy, real and symbolic, it burst those boundaries long ago, and has spent the early 21st century reveling in its status as America's fastest-growing sport and yearning to become its Next Big Thing."
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