When Pride Mattered A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss Paperback Good Condition: Very Good: A book that has been read but is in very good condition. Modest curl to cover. Genre: Sports Recreation, Biography Autobiography Topic: Coaching / General, Football, Historical, Sports Narrative Type: Nonfiction Biography Intended Audience: Adult ISBN-13: 9780684870182 Book Title: When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi Publisher: Simon Schuster Publication Year: 1999 Format: Trade Paperback Language: English Item Length: 9.2 in Item Height: 1.4 in Item Width: 6.1 in Item Weight: 22 Oz Number of Pages: 544 Pages Illustrations: Yes Author: David Maraniss Features: Reprint 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. Shipping by USPS Media Mail with Tracking Comments from the Seller: Vince believed that he was given the gift to be a great coach and that it was his duty to honor that gift. As a football coach, he felt that it was essential for a coach to determine what type of offense the team was going to implement and then to be the very best at implementing that offence. For Vince, the offence was the sweep. Vince died from cancer. The book provides an overview of the progression of his aggressive cancer. This part of the book may inspire people that fear having a colonoscopy screening to face the procedure early and annually before the cancer progresses. I am one of those that was diagnosed with untreatable stage 4 hepatic colon cancer and continues to receive treatment.