It’s hard to believe now, but the Dallas Cowboys couldn’t sell out the Cotton Bowl, their original stadium, during their first four seasons. Professional football was not a big deal in 1960, the team’s inaugural season. Of course, the Cowboys would go on to play in more Super Bowl games than any other NFL team, they have a $1.1 billion stadium, and nothing can shake their enviable nickname: America’s Team. Lakewood neighbor, Dallas Morning News reporter and author Ed Housewright, released a book this past summer that chronicles the team’s 50-year history. The book, “Dallas Cowboys, America’s Team: Celebrating 50 Years of Championship NFL Football”, is Housewright’s fifth, and it is his third book about the Cowboys. “The peg was the 50th anniversary of the team,” Housewright says. “I thought it would be good to capitalize on that, and my publisher agreed.” The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news organization, is the publisher. And it’s a photo-driven book containing hundreds of color pictures of Cowboys games and greats from AP photographers. It’s a coffee table book with a foreword from Troy Aikman, and it is organized by era: the Tom Landry era of 1966-88 and the Jerry Jones era since 1989. There are chapters on the greatest and worst moments in Dallas Cowboys history. And then Housewright goes out on a limb and ranks the all-time greatest Cowboys players by position. He knows that picking Roger Staubach over Aikman as the team’s best quarterback will cause some chatter. “I hope that people will find it entertaining and spark some discussion and argument,” he says. “There’s no definitive way to say who’s the best in a position. Statistics vary by era.” The book, which sells for about $27, is available at most major booksellers.