Including anecdotes, quotes, and reminiscences from those who knew him, this biography profiles the personal and professional sides of the football coach
The Legend of Bear Bryant by Mickey Herskowitz (McGraw-Hill 1987)(Biography). Mickey Herskowitz is a Houston Chronicle sportswriter who unabashedly professes that he stands in awe of the accomplishments of Paul “Bear” Bryant. Bryant set the highest of standards for success as a college football coach by winning everywhere he was hired: at Kentucky, at Texas A&M, and at Alabama. When he retired, he had the record for most wins by a Division 1 (big time university) college football coach. He is still immortalized thirty years after his death in 1983 – one month after he retired from coaching. My rating: 7/10, finished 2006.