Papa Bear: The Life and Legacy of George Halas

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Paperback
2006
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Papa Bear is everything a sports book should be: Passionate, encyclopedic, utterly biased and filled with endearingly anachronistic phrases... --New York Times Book Review Granted unprecedented access to George Halas's formerplayers, friends and associates, author Jeff Davis tells the incredible story of how one man grabbed an outlaw game by the throat, shook it up, and made it into the most popular spectator sport on the planet.

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Papa Bear is everything a sports book should be: Passionate, encyclopedic, utterly biased and filled with endearingly anachronistic phrases... --New York Times Book Review Granted unprecedented access to George Halas's formerplayers, friends and associates, author Jeff Davis tells the incredible story of how one man grabbed an outlaw game by the throat, shook it up, and made it into the most popular spectator sport on the planet.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 544
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary
Published: 01 Aug 2006
ISBN 10: 0071477411
ISBN 13: 9780071477413

Author Bio

Jeff Davis is a lifelong Chicagoan and career journalist. He has covered network and local news and sports for more than three decades as a writer, television sports producer, and reporter. His work has earned numerous honors, including five Emmys. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.