Winning in the Trenches is a fascinating glimpse of a bygone era in professional football from one of the players who epitomized it. With candor, insight, and love for the game, Forrest Gregg takes the reader through an amazing career that began in 1956 with the Green Bay Packers and ended, 188 consecutive games later, with the Dallas Cowboys in 1971. Colorful stories of the Lombardi years show how the famed coach turned the dismal Packers into the most dominant team in the sport, despite playing in the toughest division in football. Later chapters chronicle Gregg's coaching career, including his four tumultuous years leading the Packers, and offer candid yet fair assessments of controversial owners Art Modell and Paul Brown. Gregg covers it all with the directness, honesty, and fairness that make him one of the most admired men ever to play the game.

Product Description: Though he is considered one of the most influential coaches in football history, Paul Brown’s personal story is relatively unknown. A success at every level of the game—from high school to college, from establishing fledgling professional leagues to helping to define the modern day NFL—few know that Brown’s prodigious academic background won him a Rhodes scholarship in 1930...read more

Product Description: Art Rooney founded the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League in 1933. He, along with other pioneering owners such as George Halas, George Preston Marshall and Tim Mara, built the NFL up from a fledgling circuit that was just one step above sandlot ball into a multi-billion dollar enterprise...read more

Product Description: It has been said that sport is the great leveler, that on the playing field everyone is of equal status. Through the years, however, few institutions have better embodied America's ideals and prejudices than baseball. Jackie Robinson's debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers marked the first time an African American participated in a major league contest, and his abilities verified what many had believed all along - that African Americans could compete with white players and excel...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Branch Rickey was one of the most important and charismatic figures in all of baseball. This volume concentrates on his time with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and includes use of his personal correspondence to document his story. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)