That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory - Rilegato

Eisenberg, John

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ISBN 10: 0618904999 ISBN 13: 9780618904990

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Riassunto

John Eisenberg's That First Season is the seldom-studied prequel to a phenomenal football career for Vince Lombardi and the Packers, drawing on exhaustive new research and interviews to tell an incredible ensemble tale of a team, a town, and their leader.

 

The once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughing stock 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 city known for its passion for sport.

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Recensione:

Acclaim for John Eisenberg and The Great Match Race "The definitive account of a stupendous event that was a preview of modern American sports . . . No historian of American sports can ignore it, and no historian of America itself should." -- Ed Hotaling, author of Wink “John Eisenberg will take you there -- back to the year 1823, turfside, right up at history's inner rail to witness anew one of the most spectacular sporting events ever held . . . With muscularity, wisdom, and grace, Eisenberg offers insights into the American psyche with a chapter of our history that is as important today as it was two centuries ago." -- Mim Eichler-Rivas, author of Beautiful Jim Key "This is a lead-pipe-cinch, mortal lock, lay-your-money-down sure thing of a book . . . [It] belongs on the same shelf with William Nack’s Secretariat: The Making of a Champion,Jane Schwartz’s Ruffian: Burning From the Start,and Laura Hillenbrand’s enormously successful bestseller Seabiscuit: An American Legend.” -- Baltimore Sun "An extraordinary account of America’s first major sports spectacle . . . This is a fascinating story." -- Joe Hirsch, Daily Racing Form "A gripping yarn of sporting contest, portrayal of a historical moment, and smart analysis of a country headed eventually for civil war."-- Publishers Weekly “Eisenberg, informed by exhaustive research, tells the stories of the two great horses and their human connections with a novelist’s dramatic flair (yes, the comparisons to Seabiscuitare inevitable and appropriate). The great match race . . . deserves to be remembered both for what is was and what it meant, and Eisenberg has done his part to ensure that it will.” -- Booklist, starred review

L'autore:

John Eisenberg was an award-winning sports columnist at The Baltimore Sun for two decades, and is the author of seven books, most recently My Guy Barbaro, co-written with Hall of Fame horse racing jockey Edgar Prado, and The Great Match Race. He has written for Smithsonian Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Details, among other publications.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0618904999
• ISBN 13: 9780618904990
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 292