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Run to Daylight!

Run to Daylight! follows the Green Bay Packers through a single week in the 1960s, when Vince Lombardi was building one of the strongest teams in professional football. The book is written as a diary, starting with the review of game footage on Monday and ending with the closing whistle on Sunday.

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Along the way, Lombardi shows how a squad of more than forty players is shaped into a unit that runs with precision, covering the planning, drills, and hard work behind each game. He also shares his thoughts on coaching, success, family, and his well-known sweep play. Journalist W.C. Heinz helped shape the text, which reads as part diary, part coaching manual, and part reflection on the sport.

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