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When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi

By: David Maraniss

Price: $5.25

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 2000

Seller ID: 80656

ISBN: 0684870185

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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, d...
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Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero

By: Maraniss, David

Price: $5.25

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: April 2007

Seller ID: 45873

ISBN: 074329999X

Condition: Used - Good

On New Year's Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food and medical supplies to Nicaragua after a devastating earthquake. David Maraniss now brings the great baseball player brilliantly back to life in "Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, " a book destined to become a modern classic. Much like his acclaimed biography of Vince Lombardi, "When Pride Still Mattered, " Maraniss uses his narrative sweep and meticulous detail to capture the myth and a real m...
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Author:Maraniss, David

When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi

Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero