Paterno By the Book [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Paterno, Joe; Asbell, Bernard

Published by Random House, New York, 1989

About this Item

As new condition blue boards, blue cloth spine, and silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Editor's Note: About the Authors; Acknowledgments; and Index. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. "Joseph V. Paterno is the outspoken teacher who also happens to be head football coach at Penn State University. This irregular Joe is one of America's best known and most admired figures, by those in sports, education, politics, and business. Why? PATERNO voted four times Coach of the Year - and the only football coach ever chosen Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year. PATERNO wins: over 200 victories, 18 bowl games (12 wins), two national championships, 15 finishes in the top ten, a 31-game unbeaten streak, producing a Heisman Trophy-winning player and 47 first-team all-Americans. PATERNO teaches. He does more than profess to care about why young people go to college. His proudest stats include the gaduation rates of his players - plus the 17, so far, who have become first-team academic all-Americans. PATERNO hates to lose - but knows and shows why there is more to the game (and life) than the score. And why the finest and fullest victory is when you've gone all out, played hard and by the book. PATERNO plays and coaches by the book - and now, in his own book, is blunt, funny, candid, tough-minded .and loving. Here is Paterno: On family, fame, fortune, race relations; On effort and excellence and the exploitations of athletes; On heroes, including his father and mother, Vince Lombardi, George Patton - and the Roman poet Virgil; on "The Grand Experiment," as well as football strategy and the seductions of professional football; on management, including leadership, loyalty, teamwork vs. stardom, motivation, inspiration, discipline, practice, and performance; On recruiting by offering challenges, not convertibles; a future, not a free pass for the moment; On the REAL score beyond polls and bowls, and on what it means to become the genuine "number one"; Here are the Paterno Principles: the straight word from the curious quarterback and English majore who went from Brooklyn to Brown to Penn State, who lost his way to law school, and became instead America's best loved coach." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 007662

Bibliographic Details

Title: Paterno By the Book [FIRST EDITION, FIRST ...

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 1989

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Aulicino, Robert (jacket design); Leibovitz, Annie (jacket photograph)

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition