Greatest Teams: The Most Dominant Powerhouses in Sports

by Tim Crothers, Sports Illustrated (Editor)

Profiles and ranks the thirty greatest teams of all time, including dynasties, teams of a decade, and other great teams

Genres: Sports

176 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1998

About the author

Tim Crothers is a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated who is currently a journalism professor and a freelance sportswriter. He is the author of The Man Watching, a biography of Anson Dorrance, the legendary coach of the University of North Carolina women's soccer team, co-author of Hard Work, the autobiography of UNC basketball coach Roy Williams, and author of The Queen of Katwe, the story of a 16-year-old female chess champion from the slums of Kampala, Uganda.

Crothers lives with his wife and two children
in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Reviews

[Keegan M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you know Vince Lombardi as one of the greatest football powerhouses ever? In this non-fiction book Greatest Teams by Tim Crothers is about about all sports and famous sports teams for back then. Out of the teams in the book, I chose to do the 59’ and 60’ Green Bay Packers. This book had a lot of interesting information, after reading this book I chose Vince Lombardi because he is a very important face of football and in my opinion is the greatest coach of all time.
Vince Lombardi was a coach of the Green Bay Packers in 1959. Coming into coaching he knew the year before the Packers were not good at all. He had 14 starters returning with not much talent, Lombardi said “Talent is not a blessing, it is also a burden as the great ones find out” (pg. 58). Lombardi made new players out of what he had, changing mindsets and pushing them to get better.
Is Vince Lombardi the biggest face of football? What impact did Vince have of football today? Reading this book I learned what Vince Lombardi did as a coach of the Green Bay Packers and how he changed football today. In my opinion Vince was a big impact on football back then and now. If a team in present day wins a Super Bowl they get the Lombardi trophy named after Vince Lombardi.
Vince Lombardi is one of the greatest faces of football ever. I really enjoyed this book, learning more about sports back then, I recommend boys or adults that are interested in the history of sports and famous players and coaches such as Lombardi. If you are not interested in the history of sports I would not read this book. If I suggested a way to improve this book it would be to make the stories a little longer with more detail.