The untold story of Vince Lombardi's first season as coach of the 1959 Green Bay Packers.

Congratulations, you just got drafted into the NFL. Now what? Here’s what’s ahead of you: rigorous training, complicated playbooks, financial conundrums, intense pressure to perform—and temptation. Welcome to the big leagues. Informative, smart, funny, and beautifully illustrated, The Rookie Handbook has everything NFL rookies need to know to survive their first season of pro football, straight from veterans Ryan Kalil, Jordan Gross, and Geoff Hangartner. The three authors have a combined thirty years of NFL experience, but they too were rookies themselves, once upon a time. Much like rookies, NFL fans only know what they see on TV or read—obsessively following Rich Eisen and scouring obscure blogs for fantasy football info. But when it comes to what goes on in the inner sanctum, behind the locker room doors, it’s a mystery. The Rookie Handbook is the insider’s guide to that exclusive club, pulling back the curtain to reveal how players act and think—and what they do when no one is watching.

A fascinating insight the formation of the Football League, including the discovery of who really scored the first-ever League goal.

For some football teams, success is about never falling. For others, it is about always getting back up. When Messmer, a predominately black Milwaukee high school, and Shorewood, a white suburban high school, decided to field a joint football team, it tested more than just the players' football prowess. This is the story of that season of dreams. Although the team's won-loss record was dismal, the players gained much more through their understanding of people of another background and race.

The National Hockey League is celebrating its hundredth anniversary in 2017–2018—but Bob Duff’s The First Season reveals how close the league came to folding in its very first year. Set against the turmoil of the Great War and born out of a ruse to rid the league of reviled Toronto owner Eddie Livingstone, the new league suffered from a series of crises: from a shortfall of quality players due to military conscription, to rival leagues and divided fan loyalties, to the burning down of the Montreal Arena that was home ice to two teams. But despite all this, the league survived—and became the worldwide standard for competitive hockey. With chapters devoted to the first-ever NHL playoffs and Stanley Cup championships, in addition to team and player profiles and vintage black and white photos, Duff’s The First Season is essential reading for every hockey fan, providing real insight about the first generation of hockey heroes.

Classic Superheroes for a Modern World! A mysterious event has altered the genetic structure of humanity, granting a small percentage of the population superhuman abilities. In order to deal with potential threats posed by these specials, the President of the United States secretly forms a response team called Vanguard. Overseen by Colonel Leonard Thorne and led by Gunsmith, a soldier in a powerful exoskeleton, this team—the telekinetic powerhouse Paragon, the shape-changing Shift, the robotic Zenith, the shadow-teleporting Wraith, and the savage Sharkskin—must overcome their differences while also dealing with a parade of threats! Follow along in this first season as the team faces off against an arrogant would-be superhero, a twisted Cold War scientist, a radical revolutionary, and a vengeance-driven powerhouse! But waiting in the wings is a far more deadly threat—a mysterious warlord and his terrorist network, which plans to use specials for their own purposes! Fans of the X-Men and Avengers do not want to miss this explosive first season of an all-new superhero prose series! This collection contains all five episodes of the first season, plus a special bonus episode previously unavailable! Contents Episode #0: The Event Episode #1: Come The Exemplar Episode #2: Cold War Frankenstein Episode #3: Air of Revolution Episode #4: Power Surge Episode #5: Rise of the Red Fist

Frost is a spirit run out of her home town due to the fear of her power. Years later, she discovers the truth of who she is and has to set out on a journey to save the heralds and the Humans

When Coach Johnny Carter led the Kennard Tigers to their first State Championship, he did more than defy expectations. The small team from east Texas was unassuming and newly- integrated. They had a rookie coach no one had ever heard of and they went from being on no one's radar to claiming the title. They did it all in their very first season. www.CoachJohnnyCarter.com