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Shula Mark Ribowsky

Shula By Mark Ribowsky

Shula by Mark Ribowsky


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Summary

A Publishers Weekly Holiday Gift Guide Selection

Spanning seven decades, the notorious loss of Super Bowl III, and an historic undefeated season with the Dolphins, Shula is the definitive biography of a coaching legend.

Shula Summary

Shula: The Coach of the NFL's Greatest Generation by Mark Ribowsky

Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997, Don Shula remains the winningest coach of all time with 347 career victories and the only undefeated season in NFL history. But before he became the architect of the Dolphins dynasty, Shula was a hardworking kid selling fish on the banks of Lake Erie, the eldest of six children born during the Depression to Hungarian immigrant parents. As acclaimed sports biographer Mark Ribowsky shows, Shula met serious resistance at home when he asked to play high school football, but when his parents finally relented, they discovered that their son, though perhaps short on the physical gifts of the truly blessed, had an unmatched mind for the game's strategy and a stomach for its brutality.

With rugged determination, the jut-jawed Shula started as a defensive back in the 1950s, later beginning his thirty-two-year coaching career as the then-youngest coach ever with the Baltimore Colts. The Colts had several successful years, but Shula never quite recovered from the historic loss to the upstart New York Jets in Super Bowl III, and when a lucrative job opened in Miami, he took his talents to South Beach, where he led the Dolphins to the first perfect season in NFL history.

Tracing Shula's singular rise from his blue-collar origins to his glory days in the Miami heat, Ribowsky reveals a man of grit and charisma who never lost sight of a simple creed: All I've ever done is roll up my sleeves, figure out what to do, and start doing it.

Shula Reviews

Through Shula's career, Ribowsky provides an excellent look into the early, gritty days of professional football.... Ribowsky's excellent biography will thrill football fans of all allegiances. -- Publishers Weekly [starred review]
Must reading for budding coaches and a solid work of sports biography. -- Kirkus Reviews
Praise for the books of Mark Ribowsky:
Fascinating -Washington Post
Brilliant. -Wall Street Journal
Hugely entertaining.... Extraordinary. -Dallas Morning News
Magisterial, meticulously researched.... As good as sports writing gets. -New York Journal of Books

About Mark Ribowsky

Mark Ribowsky is a New York Times acclaimed, best-selling author of fifteen books, including biographies of Tom Landry, Al Davis, Hank Williams, and most recently, In the Name of the Father: Family, Football, and the Manning Dynasty. He lives in Florida.lorida.

Additional information

GOR012004559
9781631494604
1631494600
Shula: The Coach of the NFL's Greatest Generation by Mark Ribowsky
Used - Very Good
Hardback
WW Norton & Co
20190927
400
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