Joe Zagorski

Free Spirit at Free Safety (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Bill Bradley emerged from the Cottonmouth Blues Wagon otherwise known as a Volkswagen Bus -- all set to make his mark in pro football. He was a rare commodity in the early 1970s in the NFL...an athlete with the smarts and the physical prowess to succeed at several different positions on the field. But it was at free safety where he became famous.

Free Spirit at Free Safety: The Incredible (But True!) Football Journey of Bill Bradley explores this extraordinary player's life, from his youngest years in Palestine, Texas, to his exploits at the University of Texas, to his accomplishments with the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1970s, and to his football coaching career over the past several decades. But what really makes him unique is his ability and his willingness to have fun, and to "just be himself." Bradley was and still is an iconoclast, who has his own ideas, and who lives by his own code of adventure. And his life certainly represents those words accurately...an adventure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Highlander Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781956442366
• Artikelnr.: 72342126

Autorenporträt

Joe Zagorski is a U.S. Army veteran, a former schoolteacher, a former park ranger, and a former sportswriter for two newspapers in Pennsylvania. He is a Pro Football Writers of America (PFWA) member and the Pro Football Researchers Association (PFRA). He is also an associate member of the NFL Alumni Association. He has written three previous books, each of which deals with pro football's past.Zagorski's first book, The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade, was rated by the Library Journal as one of the Top 10 Football Books in America in 2016. His second book, The Year the Packers Came Back: Green Bay's 1972 Resurgence, explored one of the most unique teams in modern NFL history. It was published in 2019. A year later, his third book, America's Trailblazing Middle Linebacker: The Story of NFL Hall of Famer Willie Lanier, recounted the exploits of the first full-time African-American middle linebacker in pro football history. In 2021, Zagorski won the Pro Football Researchers Association's Ralph Hay Award for Lifetime Achievement for Pro Football Research and Historiography. Also, in 2021, he finished writing his first screenplay, entitled Town Teams.Zagorski was born and raised in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He currently lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.