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- Title
- Junior Seau: The Life and Death of a Football Icon
- Author
- Trotter, Jim
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0544236173
- ISBN 13
- 9780544236172
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A moving portrait of the life and legendary career of one of the NFL&;s most beloved players
Tiaina Baul &;Junior&; Seau is widely considered one of the best linebackers ever to play the game. A ten-time All-Pro and twelve-time Pro Bowl selection, Seau was picked for the NFL&;s &;All-Decade Team&; in the 1990&;s. His incredible career spanned two decades, during which time he played for the Chargers, Dolphins, and Patriots. A charismatic leader and competitor known for playing through injuries and leaving it all on the field, Seau started in almost 250 regular season games and electrified fans with his dynamic play. 
Tiaina Baul &;Junior&; Seau is widely considered one of the best linebackers ever to play the game. A ten-time All-Pro and twelve-time Pro Bowl selection, Seau was picked for the NFL&;s &;All-Decade Team&; in the 1990&;s. His incredible career spanned two decades, during which time he played for the Chargers, Dolphins, and Patriots. A charismatic leader and competitor known for playing through injuries and leaving it all on the field, Seau started in almost 250 regular season games and electrified fans with his dynamic play. 
  
In 2012, at the age of forty-three, Seau committed suicide with a gunshot wound to the chest. News of his death sent shockwaves through the NFL. Later, studies concluded that Seau had been suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage. His tragic death opened the door to hundreds of inquiries about the trauma from NFL players and their families. 
 
Drawing on exclusive access to Seau&;s family and Seau&;s never-before-seen diaries and letters, veteran reporter Jim Trotter goes beyond the statistics to paint a moving portrait of a larger-than-life star whose towering achievements in the game came at a great cost.
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"Leave it to Jim Trotter, who knew Junior Seau better than anyone in our business, to capture his competitive essence and personal demons equally well. I had so many questions about why Seau's life ended the way it did. Jim answered them with depth and compassion in this thorough and important book." Peter King, editor-in-chief, The MMQB
"Junior Seau shot himself in the heart, maybe to save his head for the pathologist. But Jim Trotter's book is about the heart, and of the heart." Tom Callahan, author of Johnny U and The GM
Few people knew Junior Seau like Jim Trotter, who gracefully guides readers into the unique world of one of the NFL s most compelling figures of the last quarter-century. Trotter has achieved something rare here: he took a sports book and artistically crafted it into a lyrical narrative about dreams, love, and, ultimately, heart-wrenching loss. Lars Anderson, author of The Storm and the Tide and The All Americans
"This book demonstrates why Trotter is one of the best talents in sports journalism. He didn't just write a great book about a football legend . . . he wrote one of the best sports biographies of all time. Mike Freeman, author of Bloody Sundays and Bowden
"Leave it to Jim Trotter, who knew Junior Seau better than anyone in our business, to capture his competitive essence and personal demons equally well. I had so many questions about why Seau's life ended the way it did. Jim answered them with depth and compassion in this thorough and important book." Peter King, editor-in-chief, The MMQB
"Junior Seau shot himself in the heart, maybe to save his head for the pathologist. But Jim Trotter's book is about the heart, and of the heart." Tom Callahan, author of Johnny U and The GM
Few people knew Junior Seau like Jim Trotter, who gracefully guides readers into the unique world of one of the NFL s most compelling figures of the last quarter-century. Trotter has achieved something rare here: he took a sports book and artistically crafted it into a lyrical narrative about dreams, love, and, ultimately, heart-wrenching loss. Lars Anderson, author of The Storm and the Tide and The All Americans
"This book demonstrates why Trotter is one of the best talents in sports journalism. He didn't just write a great book about a football legend . . . he wrote one of the best sports biographies of all time. Mike Freeman, author of Bloody Sundays and Bowden
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