New: Personally Given To Rawhide from Bart Starr |  Bart Starr is a true football legend: A Hall of Fame quarterback under whose leadership the Green Bay Packers dominated their sport as perhaps no other team has before, or since.
From the very beginning, Starr tried to fulfill huge expectations. He was an athletic overachiever who was outstanding in many sports, working hardest for his football varsity letter. This paid off when he was recruited by several colleges, but his promising first two years at Alabama were eclipsed by an injury that left him on the bench. He was later drafted by the Packers in the seventeenth round, and only pure effort kept him on the roster until the arrival of Vince Lombardi and the forging of a dynasty.
Later, he was the novice coach who survived the stormy seventies to remain as Packers head coach for nine tempestuous seasons. He is now an ex-athlete who has excelled in the business world as well as a happy family man.
But, behind the remarkable success there is pain and complexity. In childhood, there was a family tragedy that loomed over Bart's dreams of achievement. There was the formative relationship with Ben Starr, Bart's father, that in many senses prepared the boy for his grueling apprenticeship under the tyrannical Vince Lombardi. Of course, there were confrontations with Lombardi that Starr, always the team player in public, has been reluctant to describe in the past. There is a harrowing chronicle of the struggle to rescue his team after the Packer magic had disappeared. And perhaps most dramatic of all, there is the Starrs' family battle to save Bart's youngest son.
With frankness and considerable generosity, Bart Starr recounts all of it, touching on many of the great moments and personalities from his era in the game. As revealing as it is kind, this is the long-awaited memoir of one of the best-liked and most admired figures in American sport.
A must for every Packer fan!
Hard cover, 224 pages.
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