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Chicago
Bears: The Complete Illustrated History
by Lew Freedman
Hardcover from MVP Books
ISBN: 0760332312
One of only two remaining charter members of the
National Football League, the Chicago Bears are a team steeped in history.
With nine pro football championships and twenty-six hall of famers, the
Bears are also among the most successful franchises in all of professional
sports.
Revised and updated to include the latest seasons
on the gridiron, Chicago Bears: The Complete Illustrated History
brings the team's vibrant history to life. Beginning with the franchise's
1919 origins as the Decatur Staleys, this lavishly illustrated book presents
the highs and lows from more than nine decades of football. Here is the
story of the first dynasty under George "Papa Bear" Halas; the "Monsters
of the Midway" of the 1940s; the team's resurgence in the late 1960s; its
1985 Super Bowl win; and the run for the title in 2006. Former Chicago
Tribune sportswriter and longtime Bears aficionado Lew Freedmen highlights
the legends who have donned Bears uniforms, outsize characters like Red
Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Sid Luckman, Mike Ditka, Dick Butkus, Gayle Sayers,
Walter Payton, Mike Singletary, Brian Urlacher, and many more. He includes
the numbers behind the stories---the stats and team records---as well as
pivotal plays in Bears' history, from Halas' T-formation to William "The
Refrigerator" Perry's touchdown runs. The book presents a key chapter of
sports history and offers a fitting tribute to one of football's most beloved
teams. |
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Chicago
Bears: Yesterday & Today
by Jeff Davis, Foreword by Gary Fencik
Hardcover from Publications International
ISBN: 1412761174
The Chicago Bears were once the face of the National Football League.
Today they are one of its most popular and most fascinating franchises,
selling out game after game in historic Soldier Field and stirring passions
in one of America s great football cities. Read Chicago Bears: Yesterday
& Today and experience the magnificent history of pro football s charter
franchise and the game s most storied team.
Here are some of the fascinating stories included in Chicago Bears:
Yesterday & Today:
The pivotal year 1920, when 25-year-old George Halas took a train from
Decatur, Illinois where he ran a football team for starch baron A. E. Staley
to Canton, Ohio, and formed the American Professional Football Association
with other team owners, hammering out an agreement in an auto showroom
Halas nearly five-decade-long tenure atop the franchise, in which he
oversaw eight championships, coached six title teams, and became the game
s winningest coach
The careers of NFL greats and Chicago icons like mold-breaking quarterback
Sid Luckman and back-breaking middle linebackers Dick Butkus, Mike Singletary,
and Brian Urlacher
The age of Iron Mike Ditka, the team s most colorful coach, who won
the franchise s only Super Bowl and guided colorful characters like defensive
tackle William Refrigerator Perry, quarterback Jim McMahon, and defensive
coordinator Buddy Ryan
The Bears trouncing of the New England Patriots in the 1985 Super Bowl
and their painful performance in the 2007 game, following a dream season
From a foreword by Bears Super Bowl safety Gary Fencik to comments
on the arrival of Jay Cutler probably the most talented Bears quarterback
ever for the 2009 season, Chicago Bears: Yesterday & Today covers it
all. |
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Da
Bears!: How the 1985 Monsters of the Midway Became the Greatest Team in
NFL History
by Steve Delsohn
Hardcover from Crown Archetype
Media Published: 2010-
ISBN: 0307464679
An acclaimed sports journalist and native Chicagoan tackles what
many call the greatest team in NFL history. Da Bears! tells the
full story of the '85 legends--with all the controversy and excitement--on
the field and off.
It's been 25 years since the Chicago Bears won Super Bowl XX with what
Bill Parcells called "the best defensive team I've ever seen" and
an offense surprisingly good for a franchise where offense was often a
dirty word. Now, for the first time, an incredibly candid book takes you
through all the games and behind the scenes--into the huddles, the locker
rooms, the team meetings, and of course the bars--for an intimate account
of that unforgettable season.
Here's how a team that got booed in its regular-season opener ended
up winning its first world championship in 22 years, led by the most
capable, colorful, and un-PC characters ever to strap on helmets--including
Jim McMahon, the hard partyer and so-called punk rocker who became a star
quarterback and an antihero; William "Refrigerator" Perry, the rookie giant
who turned into a full-blown national sensation; Mike Ditka, the legendarily
combative head coach called "Sybil" for his mercurial moods; his nemesis,
defensive coordinator, Buddy Ryan, who insulted and broke down his players,
then built them back up again, military-style; Walter Payton, the hard-nosed
running back and mischievous prankster; and middle linebacker Mike Singletary,
known for his leadership and his jarring hits.
From the inner workings of their innovative and attacking 46 defense
to the inside story of their cocky "Super Bowl Shuffle" music video (shot,
amazingly, right after their one loss of the season, to Miami), all the
setbacks and triumphs, ferocious hits and foibles, of this once-in-a-lifetime
team are recaptured brashly and boldly--the Chicago way. |
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The
Rise and Self-Destruction of the Greatest Football Team in History: The
Chicago Bears and Super Bowl XX
by John Mullin
Hardcover from Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN: 1572437901
The 1985 Bears, with their explosive concoction of talent, personality,
eccentricity, and ego, were unlike any other collection of professional
athletes that came before them. They changed the way Americans view their
sports teams, and no other team since has even approached the phenomenon
that swept the nation during the Bears' run to Super Bowl glory. But the
volatility that helped make the 1985 Bears the greatest football team on
the planet also contributed to their inevitable implosion. This is the
real story of one unique team's rise to glory and a behind-the-scenes look
at their fall from grace. |
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Bear
With Me: A Family History of George Halas and the Chicago Bears
by Patrick McCaskey
Hardcover from Triumph Books
ISBN: 1600781284
The Chicago Bears are many things: one of the charter members of the
NFL; the winningest team in NFL history; owner of nine league championships;
and home to 26 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees, including legends such
as George Halas, Dick Butkus, Gale Sayers, and Walter Payton. But the Chicago
Bears have always been one thing above all else: a family business. Throughout
their nearly 90 years of existence, the Monsters of the Midway have been
owned and operated by the Halas and McCaskey families. Bear With Me, written
by Papa Bear's grandson Patrick McCaskey, invites readers inside their
private world and gives fans a unique perspective on the history of the
Bears and the family that lives and dies with every game. From childhood
days spent bouncing on his grandfather's knee to his current role as the
team's senior director of special projects, Patrick McCaskey has lived
and breathed Bears football his entire life. Bear With Me features a lifetime's
worth of his personal reflections, including his grandfather's days as
the team's coach and owner; receiving coaching tips from quarterback Bill
Wade; finding himself on the receiving end of Walter Payton's practical
jokes; and how owning the Bears has been a blessing for him, his parents,
his siblings, and his own children. The Halases and McCaskeys have always
focused on faith, family, and football. Featuring amusing anecdotes, poignant
remembrances, and never-before-seen family photographs, Bear With Me is
a one-of-a-kind trip into the world of the Chicago Bears from a man who
has lived there since the day he was born. |
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The
50 Greatest Plays in Chicago Bears Football History (50 Greatest Plays
the 50 Greatest Plays)
by Lew Freedman, Foreword by Doug Buffone
Hardcover from Triumph Books
ISBN: 1600781225
Guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment--and to spark spirited
debate--The 50 Greatest Plays in Chicago Bears Football History ranks and
brings to life the most memorable moments in the long and storied history
of the Monsters of the Midway. The 50 chapters describe the action, profile
the participants, and reveal the rich story behind each play. Quotes, game
statistics, memorable photographs, and Xs and Os diagrams of selected plays
make this the most comprehensive and unique book ever written about the
Chicago Bears. |
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Chicago
Bears 101
by Brad Epstein
Board book from Michaelson Entertainment
ISBN: 1607301059
Chicago Bears 101 is required reading for every Bears fan! From Staley
Da Bear and the Fog Bowl to the 1985 Super Bowl Championship, you'll share
all the memories with the next generation. Enjoy all the traditions of
your favorite team, learn the basics about playing football and share the
excitement of the NFL! |
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Never
Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton
by Walter Payton, Don Yaeger
Paperback from Random House Trade Paperbacks
Media Published: 2001-
ISBN: 0375758216
"Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker
pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die,
but don't die without trying, without giving it your best."
His legacy is towering. Walter Payton--the man they called Sweetness,
for the way he ran--remains the most prolific running back in the history
of the National Football League, the star of the Chicago Bears' only Super
Bowl Championship, eleven times voted the most popular sports figure in
Chicago's history. Off the field, he was a devoted father whose charitable
foundation benefited tens of thousands of children each year, and who--faced
with terminal liver disease--refused to use his celebrity to gain a preferential
position for organ donation. Walter Payton was not just a football hero;
he was America's hero.
Never Die Easy is Walter Payton's autobiography, told from the
heart. Growing up poor in Mississippi, he took up football to get girls'
attention, and went on to become a Black College All-American at tiny Jackson
State (during which time he was also a finalist in a Soul Train dance contest).
Drafted by the Bears in 1975, he predicted that he would last only five
years but went on to play thirteen extraordinary seasons, a career earning
him regular acknowledgment as one of the greatest players in the history
of professional football. And when his playing days were over, he approached
business and charity endeavors with the same determination and success
he had brought to the football field, always putting first his devotion
to friends and family. His ultimate battle with illness truly proved him
the champion he always had been and prompted a staggering outpouring of
love and support from hundreds of thousands of friends and admirers.
Written with veteran journalist and author Don Yaeger in the last weeks
of Walter Payton's life, Never Die Easy presents Walter's singular
voice--warm, plainspoken, funny, self-aware--along with the voices of the
friends, family, teammates, and business associates who knew him best at
all stages of his life, including his wife, Connie, and their children,
Brittney and Jarrett; his teammate and friend Matt Suhey; former Bears
head coach Mike Ditka; and many, many others.
Walter made Don Yaeger promise that his book would be "inspirational
and leave people with some kind of lesson . . . and make sure you spell
all the words right." Never Die Easy keeps all those promises.
--Jeff Silverman |
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What
Bears They Were: Chicago Bears Greats Talk About Their Teams, Their Coaches,
and the Times of Their Lives
by Richard Whittingham, et al
(Hardcover)
Mudbaths
and Bloodbaths: The Inside Story of the Bears-Packers Rivalry
by Gary D'Amato, et al
(Paperback)
The
Chicago Bears Football Team (Great Sports Teams)
by Tim O'Shei
(Library Binding)
Ditka:
An Autobiography
by Mike Ditka, et al
(Hardcover - June 1987)
Football's
Attacking 46 Bear Defense
by Kenny Ratledge
(Paperback)
Bob
Logan's Tales from Chicago Sports: Cubs, Bulls, Bears and Other Animals
by Bob Logan
(Hardcover)
Wrigley Field : A Celebration of the Friendly Confines
by Mark Jacob (Photographer), et al
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