Blades, Bands, and Ballers: How Flash and Cash Rescued the Flyers and Created Philadelphia's Greatest Showplace

"RUNNING AN ARENA WAS NO GAME I had many ideas on making the Philadelphia Flyers and the Spectrum zing, some solid- some zany. Ed Snider pretty much let me call the shots, as long as I ran the more risky or costly ones by him. If I couldn't convince him, I'd try to tamper them down from Just Plain Wild to Let's Hope We Don't Get Arrested. I was a riverboat gambler, Ed was a card counter. I doubled down, he cut the odds. I was a swaggering Sagittarian. He was the cautious Capricorn. I dubbed us Flash & Cash. Between us, we went to work selling hockey, Philly Style. Blades, Bands, and Ballers is Lou Scheinfeld's inside story of running the Spectrum with Ed Snider. Stories include the Jerry Wolman blood feud, Sinatra and The Philly Mob, making the Broad Street Bullies, Smokin' Joe Frazier's snub, Elvis' sad final stop, Dr. J. and the 76ers, the Electric Factory's impact, Rizzo and The Rolling Stones, the Kate Smith debacle and many more"--