Vince lombardi biography book
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When Pride Still Mattered
In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God. More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordham, West Point, and the New York Giants before his big break came at age forty-six with the chance to coach a struggling team in snowbound Wisconsin.
His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world championships in nine seasons is the most storied period in NFL history. Lombardi became a living legend, a symbol to many of leadership, discipline, perseverance, and teamwork, and to others of an obsession with winning. In When Pride Still Mattered, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the myth and the man, football, God, and country in a thrillin
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When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi
Growing up a Cleveland Browns fan in the 's, if there was any team that quenched our hopes in the Jim Brown era, it was the Green Bay Packers quarterbacked by Bart Starr, with Hornung and Taylor in the backfield. And behind it all was legendary coach Vince Lombardi, for whom the Superbowl trophy is named, a coach with a consuming drive to win, characterized by the quote, "Winning isn't everything, it is the only thing."
David Maraniss is another author in the mold of George Will and David Halberstam, writing political biographies of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, but also fine pieces of sports writing including a biography of Roberto Clemente and this work on Lombardi. He traces the rise of Lombardi, the son of a S
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Top Lombardi books: 'When Pride Still Mattered' and 'Run to Daylight'
John Torinus, former Packer board member, published a book covering Green Bay Packers history from through Has there been a general Packers history book published since then?
Yes, there have been other books written since. But I'd still recommend Torinus' "The Packer Legend" () to anyone looking for a more all-encompassing book about Packers history. Torinus was mentored as a young reporter at the Press-Gazette bygd George Whitney Calhoun, the Packers' co-founder, and then replaced Andrew Turnbull, one of the paper's owners, on the Packers' executive committee in and served until So he had a front-row seat to more than 35 years of Packers history. That said, keep in mind, the first sentence of the book's Introduction: "This is more a collection of recollections than a history of the Green Bay Packers." I think the stories are largely accurate, but the fact-checking left something to be de