When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi
Paperback 544 pages English September 03, 2000
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Path Lit by Lightning comes a groundbreaking biography that 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.
- Author:
- David Maraniss
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date:
- September 03, 2000
- Number of pages:
- 544 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0684870185
- ISBN-13:
- 9780684870182