Purpose and Passion: Bobby Pruett & the Marshall Years

by Bill Chastain

A poignant and action packed biography of the Division I college football coach with the best winning record in the 1990s -- Bobby Pruett of Marshall -- bya a nationally known sports writer and author of books on Steve Spurrier, Payne Stewart and the Pittsburgh Steelers. A winner of a book!

324 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2005

About the author

Bill Chastain began his journalism career as a freelance writer shortly after graduating from Georgia Tech in 1979. Some of the more notable publications where his stories have appeared over the years include: Razor Magazine, Nation’s Business, SPORT Magazine, and Inside Sports. Chastain worked as a sports reporter for The St. Petersburg Times and The St. Petersburg Evening Independent before going to The Tampa Tribune in 1990, where he worked for twelve years as a columnist and sports reporter. While with the Tribune he also served as a correspondent for Sports Illustrated. Currently he covers Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays for MLB.com.