Green Bay Packers Facts & Trivia [Paperback]

Larry Names (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: E B Houchin Co; 5 edition (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0938313304
• ISBN-13: 978-0938313304
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,979,346 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Larry Names is a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction books. He is a recognized authority on the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, and Green Bay Packers. Names has had 36 titles published to date, 21 of them novels, and the remainder non--fiction all dealing with sports teams or sports figures.
He resides in central Wisconsin with his wife Peg on a family farm that has been in his wife's family since 1854. They have a son, Torry, and a daughter, Tegan, four cats and an escape-artist horse, Lucky Moondancer. Larry has four children from his first marriage: daughter Sigrid, son Paul, daughter Kristin, and daughter Sonje.
The author was born in Mishawaka, Indiana and has lived in nine different states during his life and went to eleven schools growing up. He is an avid researcher and traveler.
Besides being an avid history buff, he is also an informed and enthusiastic sports fan and memorabilia collector.
Names researches his novels and non-fiction extensively. As he puts it, "I can't write about a place I haven't seen or touched." He and his family have averaged two months of travel a year since he took up writing full-time in 1976. They often log more than 30,000 miles annually. The settings for his books range from Mexico to Florida to New York to Colorado to Arizona and almost every place in between.