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| Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 78 reviews) Sales Rank: 4383 Category: Book
Author: Jeffrey Marx Publisher: Simon & Schuster Studio: Simon & Schuster Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Label: Simon & Schuster Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 192 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7 Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0743269748 Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332092 EAN: 9780743269742 ASIN: 0743269748
Publication Date: August 24, 2004 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, love. Love? A former captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. Season of Life is his inspirational story as told by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jeffrey Marx, who was a ballboy for the Colts when he first met Ehrmann.Ehrmann now devotes his life to teaching young men a whole new meaning of masculinity. He teaches the boys at Gilman the precepts of his Building Men for Others program: Being a man means emphasizing relationships and having a cause bigger than yourself. It means accepting responsibility and leading courageously. It means that empathy, integrity, and living a life of service to others are more important than points on a scoreboard. Decades after he first met Ehrmann, Jeffrey Marx renewed their friendship and watched his childhood hero putting his principles into action. While chronicling a season with the Gilman Greyhounds, Marx witnessed the most extraordinary sports program he'd ever seen, where players say "I love you" to each other and coaches profess their love for their players. Off the field Marx sat with Ehrmann and absorbed life lessons that led him to reexamine his own unresolved relationship with his father. Season of Life is a book about what it means to be a man of substance and impact. It is a moving story that will resonate with athletes, coaches, parents -- anyone struggling to make the right choices in life.
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  As It Should Be January 6, 2009 Inspiring. Wish it was required reading for every coach. The book describes the world of sports as it should be........encouraging!
  Great Read September 27, 2008 Enjoyed the book very much. I lived in Baltimore for a couple years but had no idea there were such great things going on in the inner city. Very inspirational!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  I love this story! August 29, 2008 I'm not a huge fan of football...but, when I read this book a year ago, I handed out copies to quite a few people! I just bought another copy for myself because I keep giving them away! I'm sure I'll have to order more. Read this book.
  Every coach at every level in every sport should read this book. July 24, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Joe Eherman has captured what is wrong with sports. This is a must read for all coaches.
  Must read for every dad and coach! May 1, 2008 I had heard that this was an amazing book from so many people and I was definitely not disappointed - what a great story of what God can do through the life of one man wholly sold out to His glory! Marx is a journalist who grew up as the ball boy for the Baltimore Colts. One larger-than-life figure on that team of the 70s and 80s was Joe Ehrmann whose life took a radical turn when his younger brother passed away from cancer. After years had passed, Marx once again reunited with Ehrmann and was struck by what he found - the flamboyant football star was now a coach and mentor to young men using the game of football to teach about the necessities of life. Ehrmann's life was now invested in the lives of others teaching these young boys how to be men - Building Men for Others is the name of his program, but it's much more than a program or a set of principles, it's a way of life, a way to see others, a way to live that completely transforms others around you. The book was a great read and should be near the top of "must reads" for every father and coach.
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