Pride of the Lions: The Biography of Joe Paterno - Hardcover

Frank Fitzpatrick (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1600786154 ISBN 13: 9781600786150

Publisher: Triumph Books, 2011

Synopsis

Joe Paterno has scaled the heights of his profession, winning more than 400 games, a pair of national championships and nationwide respect for the program he built and sustained. In his mid-eighties now, he has vowed to continue with coaching, excited by the prospect of another promising team, and another autumn in Happy Valley. In this exciting new biography of a coaching icon, Frank Fitzpatrick, author of The Lion in Autumn, chronicles the life and career of the winningest coach in Division 1 football history.

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About the Author:

Frank Fitzpatrick is the author of three other books, including And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: Kentucky, Texas Western, and the Game that Changed American Sports and The Lion in Autumn: A Season with Joe Paterno and Penn State Football. A longtime sportswriter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, he was a finalist for a 2001 Pulitzer Prize and has won numerous local and national awards. He lives in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Triumph Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1600786154
• ISBN 13: 9781600786150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256