The First America's Team: The 1962 Green Bay Packers - Paperback

by Bob Berghaus (Author)

The First America's Team shows how the Green Bay Packers from "the Siberia of the NFL" became the game's gritty, glorious, and enduring powerhouse.

Author Biography

Bob Berghaus was born in 1954 and raised in Milwaukee. He went on to work for the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel where he reported on a variety of sports, including the Milwaukee Brewers from 1991-95 and the Green Bay Packers from 1996-98, covering the Packers in Super Bowls XXXI and XXXII. He then moved to Green Bay to become sports editor of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. He's earned several writing awards and was named Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year in 1991 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. Bob left Green Bay in the summer of 2003 for Asheville, North Carolina, where he is currently sports editor of the Asheville Citizen-Times. He and his wife, Lisa, have a daughter, Kelly.