Author | : John Eisenberg |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780618904990 |
The untold story of Vince Lombardi's first season as coach of the 1959 Green Bay Packers.
Author | : John Eisenberg |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780618904990 |
The untold story of Vince Lombardi's first season as coach of the 1959 Green Bay Packers.
Author | : John Eisenberg |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0547417721 |
The story of a team, a town, and a leader: Vince Lombardi’s first year as head coach of the Green Bay Packers, and how he turned them into a powerhouse. The once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughingstock by the late 1950s. They hadn’t fielded a winning team in more than a decade, and were close to losing their franchise to another city. They were in desperate need of a savior—and he arrived in a wood-paneled station wagon in the dead of winter from New York City. In a single year, Vince Lombardi—the grizzled coach who took no bull—transformed a team of underachievers into winners and resurrected a Wisconsin city known for its passion for sport. He would lead them to championship to championship, and bring out the best in players including Bart Starr, Jim Taylor, Willie Davis, Forrest Gregg, and many more. From an award-winning sportswriter, That First Season is “a compelling read about perhaps the most compelling coach ever to stride an NFL sideline” (Washington Times). “Richly detailed in seamless prose, this is historical sportswriting at its finest.”—Lars Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of The Mannings: The Fall and Rise of a Football Family
Author | : Bob Duff |
Publisher | : Biblioasis |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1771961856 |
The National Hockey League is celebrating its hundredth anniversary in 2017–2018—but Bob Duff’s The First Season reveals how close the league came to folding in its very first year. Set against the turmoil of the Great War and born out of a ruse to rid the league of reviled Toronto owner Eddie Livingstone, the new league suffered from a series of crises: from a shortfall of quality players due to military conscription, to rival leagues and divided fan loyalties, to the burning down of the Montreal Arena that was home ice to two teams. But despite all this, the league survived—and became the worldwide standard for competitive hockey. With chapters devoted to the first-ever NHL playoffs and Stanley Cup championships, in addition to team and player profiles and vintage black and white photos, Duff’s The First Season is essential reading for every hockey fan, providing real insight about the first generation of hockey heroes.
Author | : James Burgess |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2023-02-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3382500248 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author | : Mark Metcalf |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2013-07-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1445618605 |
A fascinating insight the formation of the Football League, including the discovery of who really scored the first-ever League goal.
Author | : Perrin Briar |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2017-01-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781541281639 |
A Mysterious Clock Controls Time. What Happens When It Breaks?The clock tower is the center of the town of Time. It counts down the hours, minutes and seconds of every passing day. But unbeknownst to the local inhabitants, it is at the center of a great deal more than that. It is the center of the universe and controls time itself. But it is old and beginning to break, sending the world's inhabitants skipping forward and back through time.Seventeen-year-old Jera Wythnos, betrothed to marry a powerful lord, runs to escape her responsibilities and pursue her dream of traveling the world. Hot on her heels is her betrothed, moving heaven and earth to find her before the wedding day.Elian Stump is an outlaw on the run from a bungled heist, but he carries with him a dangerous secret that threatens to either free or ensnare the world.They confront sinister forces at every turn, hell bent on preventing them from achieving their goal, and taking control of the clock tower for themselves.The universe has chosen this unlikely pair to collect all three replacement clock pieces scattered across the world before the clock tower, and time, breaks for good. On their journey they make friends and enemies, encounter strange and wonderful mythical creatures, and face their own internal demons.
Author | : Bob Duff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781771961844 |
An anecdotal history of the NHL's tumultuous first season by respected sports journalist Bob Duff marking the league's 100th anniversary.
Author | : Ryan Kalil |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 168245035X |
Congratulations, you just got drafted into the NFL. Now what? Here’s what’s ahead of you: rigorous training, complicated playbooks, financial conundrums, intense pressure to perform—and temptation. Welcome to the big leagues. Informative, smart, funny, and beautifully illustrated, The Rookie Handbook has everything NFL rookies need to know to survive their first season of pro football, straight from veterans Ryan Kalil, Jordan Gross, and Geoff Hangartner. The three authors have a combined thirty years of NFL experience, but they too were rookies themselves, once upon a time. Much like rookies, NFL fans only know what they see on TV or read—obsessively following Rich Eisen and scouring obscure blogs for fantasy football info. But when it comes to what goes on in the inner sanctum, behind the locker room doors, it’s a mystery. The Rookie Handbook is the insider’s guide to that exclusive club, pulling back the curtain to reveal how players act and think—and what they do when no one is watching.
Author | : Robert Jordan |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 753 |
Release | : 1990-01-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0312850093 |
The Wheel of Times turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, and Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.