Golden Boy - Paul Hornung - HC w/DJ 1st PRINT 2004 - Green Bay - Notre Dame
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Golden Boy - Paul Hornung - HC w/DJ 1st PRINT 2004 - Green Bay - Notre Dame. "Golden Boy" by Paul Hornung with William F. Reed - 1st EDITIION 1st PRINT Hardcover w/Dustjacket - Published in 2004 by Simon & Schuster - 291pages (16 pages of great black & white photos) - both book and DJ are in very good condition. "Golden Boy" by Paul Hornung with William F. Reed - 1st EDITIION 1st PRINT Hardcover w/Dustjacket - Published in 2004 by Simon & Schuster - 291pages (16 pages of great black & white photos) - both book and DJ are in very good condition. Paul Hornung was football's "Golden Boy" -- handsome, talented, and fabulously successful. He had a great career at Notre Dame, where he won the Heisman Trophy (the only player ever to win it on a team with a losing record). He was the #1 draft pick in the NFL and went to the Green Bay Packers, a terrible team soon transformed by a new head coach, Vince Lombardi. Hornung's Packer teams would become a dynasty, and ten of his teammates (as well as Lombardi) would eventually join him in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Hornung led the NFL in scoring from 1959 to 1961, setting a single-season scoring record in 1960 that still stands. He was Player of the Year in 1960 and 1961. Hornung always loved the good life. He had girlfriends all across the country, and he was a regular at Toots Shor's and at clubs in Chicago and Los Angeles. A frustrated Lombardi once asked him whether he wanted to be a player or a playboy, and his teammates joked about his Hollywood ambitions. On game days Hornung was always ready to play, but the night after a game -- and sometimes even the night before -- was a different story. For Hornung, the good life came at a price: his gambling cost him a year's suspension from the NFL in 1963. He accepted his punishment, refusing to implicate anyone else, but in this autobiography he reveals just how widespread gambling was in the NFL. However, on the playing field Hornung and his Packer teammates made football history. Bart Starr, Max McGee, Jim Taylor, Ray Nitschke, Jerry Kramer, Jim Ringo, Ron Kramer, Forrest Gregg, Fuzzy Thurston, Willie Davis, Herb Adderley, Willie Wood -- they're all here, and Hornung has great stories to tell about them and about some of their biggest games together. Golden Boy is a must-read for football fans, a colorful, candid slice of pigskin history from one of the game's immortal legends. T here is a little edge wear on the DJ, mostly at the top and bottom of the spine and the corners of the book are lightly bumped, but this book is still in very good condition. No collection of Paul Hornung or Green Bay Packers items is complete without this outstanding book. Check out the scan for the great shot of Hurnung on the cover. You can try to buy this book for less money from one of those eBay booksellers with hundreds, if not thousands of negatives (you know the ones I refer to) and be lucky if the book is delivered to you in the stated condition (if you even get it at all), or you can buy it from me and be assured of a prompt delivery and of receiving an item true to the condition indicated. You won't be disappointed. All previous buyers of my football books have been completely satisfied. I have many others available; please check my listings. The book will be sent via Media mail shipping in the USA. I will combine shipping to reduce charges for multiple items. If you purchase more than one item or lot, please request an invoice for the appropriate combined shipping discount. See my auctions and my eBay store for hundreds of books and a wide variety of sports and non-sports collectibles. All items are packed with care to insure safe delivery. Please contact me if you have any questions. 10-6-25 -- 18.0
