(EBOOK) Shoot for the Stars: The Legend of Tom Hearden (The Faith, Family, and Football Series, Book 1)

He Was Almost Vince Lombardi.

Shoot For the Stars recounts the ultimate "What if" story. When the Hearden family moves to Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1914, 10-year-old Tom becomes enamored by the growing sport of football. Learning from his boyhood friend Jim Crowley—one of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen—and with the legendary Knute Rockne and Curly Lambeau as his mentors, Tom's lifelong dream becomes to coach the Green Bay Packers someday. Thus his coaching journey begins. Using the tricks he learned from the masters, he became one of the nation's winningest high school and college football coaches of his era.

After a decade of losing, the Packers are fed up. Thus the team's brass turn to "one of their own" for the 1958 season—former top assistant Tom Hearden. Yet for reasons unknown, fate had other ideas. On the eve of being named the Packers head coach, tragedy intervenes. And in yet another twist of fate, it leads to the Packers' eventual hiring of a former New York Giants coach named Vince Lombardi.