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Joe Zagorski is a US Army veteran, a former schoolteacher, a former park ranger, and a former sportswriter for two newspapers in Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Pro Football Writers of America (PFWA) and the Pro Football Researchers Association (PFRA). He has written five previous books, each of which deals with pro football's past.The Library Journal ranked Zagorski's first book, The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade, as one of the top ten football books in America in 2016. The Milwaukee Record ranked his second book, The Year the Packers Came Back: Green Bay's 1972 Resurgence, as one of the top Christmas books for Packers fans in 2019. A year later, his third book, America's Trailblazing Middle Linebacker: The Story of NFL Hall of Famer Willie Lanier, recounted the exploits of the first fulltime African American middle linebacker in pro football history. Zagorski's fourth book, a retrospective of the 1973 Buffalo Bills entitled The 2,003-Yard Odyssey: The Juice, the Electric Company, and an Epic Run for a Record, was released in 2024. Zagorski's fifth book, a biography of former Philadelphia Eagles free safety Bill Bradley entitled Free Spirit at Free Safety: The Incredible (But True!) Football Journey of Bill Bradley, was also released in 2024.In 2021, Zagorski won the Pro Football Researchers Association's Ralph Hay Award for Lifetime Achievement for Pro Football Research and Historiography. In 2023, Zagorski won the PFRA Bob Carroll Memorial Writing Award. Zagorski is also a contributing writer for the website Pro Football Journal and the administrator for the Facebook page, ""The NFL in the 1970s."" He began that Facebook page several years ago, and it now has over 40,000 followers. He also wrote a screenplay in 2021 titled Town Teams.Zagorski was born and raised in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He currently lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Larry Little had to trudge up many steep hills in his life, yet he somehow managed to reach the summit of his profession. The undrafted free agent from Bethune Cookman University began his journey to pro football stardom on the streets of Miami as a youngster. He emerged from Booker T. Washington High School as a raw recruit overlooked by most colleges. Little nevertheless kept improving as an offensive guard. The San Diego Chargers offered him a free agent contract upon his college graduation, and then a couple of years later, he was traded to the Miami Dolphins. From 1970 until 1981, Little was regarded as one of the best in his position in pro football history. After his retirement as a player, he went on to become a head coach for two colleges and a pro team in the NFL's European League. Along the way, he received his greatest honor, that of enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. This biography stands as a narrative testament to his greatness. Bob Griese was a teammate of Larry Little's for 13 seasons for the Miami Dolphins. Griese's Hall of Fame credentials and knowledge of the sport were also displayed on numerous college football telecasts for ABC-TV following his retirement from pro football.
""Larry Little was a power blocker straight ahead. He had that quickness for a big man that you didn't see back then. Back then, you didn't see many guards pulling and doing what he did."" - Bob Griese, Miami Dolphins Hall of Fame Quarterback ""Larry was the quickest and had the most speed and strength than anybody who opposed me that I had to deal with. I wasn't as strong as he was, and I couldn't out quick him, so I had a difficult time playing against Larry."" - Joe Greene, Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame Defensive Tackle ""I think that Larry Little was a guy you could count on, play in, and play out. He was going to be the first one up the hill. . . come hell or high water."" - Larry Csonka, Miami Dolphins Hall of Fame Running Back
