When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi

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 thrilling biography destined to become an American classic.

• That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory
• What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leadership
• Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer
• Vince Lombardi on Leadership: Life Lessons from a Five-Time NFL Championship Coach
• The Lombardi Rules: 26 Lessons from Vince Lombardi--The World's Greatest Coach (The McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
• Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi's Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers
• Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
• The Essential Vince Lombardi : Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win
• America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation
• The Education of a Coach