Full name: Namath: A Biography

Author: Mark Kriegel Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780143035350

In between Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan there was Joe Namath, one of the  few sports heroes to transcend the game he played. Novelist and former sports-columnist Mark Kriegel’s bestselling biography of the iconic quarterback details his journey from steel-town pool halls to the upper reaches of American celebrity—and beyond. The first of his kind, Namath enabled a nation to see sports as show biz. For an entire generation he became a spectacle of booze and broads, a guy who made bachelorhood seem an almost sacred calling, but it was his audacious “guarantee” of victory in Super Bowl III that ensured his legend. This unforgettable portrait brings readers from the gridiron to the go-go nightclubs as Kriegel uncovers the truth behind Broadway Joe and why his legend has meant so much to so many. Similar books: When Pride Still Mattered by David Maraniss Provided You Don't Kiss Me by Duncan Hamilton Johnny U by Tom Callahan Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam Pistol by Mark Kriegel Sweetness by Jeff Pearlman I Beat the Odds by Michael Oher The Greatest by Walter Dean Myers My Father And Other Working Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach Garrincha by Ruy Castro Ali by Jonathan Eig I Am Zlatan by Zlatan Ibrahimovic Left Foot Forward by Garry Nelson Instant Replay by Jerry Kramer The Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney The Women of Duck Commander by Kay Robertson