ALIVE AND KICKING: My Journey Through Football, Addiction and Life

Chester Marcol with Gary D'Amato

ISBN 10: 0983733724 / ISBN 13: 9780983733720

Published by KCI Sports Publishing, 2011

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2011 Edition hardcover book LIKE NEW/dustjacket LIKE NEW brodart covered, SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author/football player CHESTER MARCOL.

Seller Inventory # SAKBK

Bibliographic Details

• Title: ALIVE AND KICKING: My Journey Through Football, Addiction and Life
• Publisher: KCI Sports Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0983733724
• ISBN 13: 9780983733720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • SIGNED NON FICTION BIOS
  • SIGNED NON FICTION SPORTS

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Synopsis

Chester Marcol was a Polish immigrant who spoke no English when he discovered football by accident in 1965 as a shy high school student in Imlay City, Michigan. By 1972, he was a household name in Wisconsin after being named National Football League rookie of the year with the Green Bay Packers. Known for his frizzy hair, thick glasses, and powerful right leg, he led the league in scoring in two of his first three years and was among the top place-kickers in the game. Marcol authored one of the most famous plays in franchise history in 1980, when he caught his own blocked field goal in overtime and ran for a touchdown in a thrilling 12-6 season-opening victory over the Chicago Bears. In his autobiography Alive and Kicking Marcol talks about the hurdles he overcame as a Polish immigrant to become an NFL star, provides a no-holds-barred look at his alcohol and substance abuse that cost him his football career and family, and for the first time publicly, he discusses his suicide attempt in 1986 that continues to affect his health to this day. A member of the Packers Hall of Fame, Marcol lives in Michigan s Upper Peninsula where he works as a certified alcohol and drug abuse counselor and fights the daily battle to remain clean and sober.

About the Author

Chester Marcol, a Polish immigrant, made a splash as a soccer-style rookie kicker with the Green Bay Packers in 1972, leading the National Football League in scoring and earning rookie of the year honors. He led the league in scoring again in 1974 and was a two-time All-Pro kicker. Known as the Polish Prince he was one of the most popular Packers throughout the 1970s. He was released early in the 1980 season and began a long and harrowing descent into alcoholism and drug abuse. Sober today, he works as a drug and alcohol abuse counselor in Michigan s Upper Peninsula, where he lives with his wife, Carole, and their three children. Marcol was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 1987. Gary D Amato covers the Packers, golf, and the Olympic Games for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He is a three-time Wisconsin sportswriter of the year and has won national awards for his golf and auto racing coverage. D Amato has authored or co-authored six other books, including Mudbaths and Bloodbaths: The Inside Story of the Bears-Packers Rivalry. He lives in Caledonia, Wisconsin, with his wife, Dee Dee.