This Father’s Day let dad brush up on his Pittsburgh sports history with The Slide: Leyland, Bonds, and the Star-Crossed Pittsburgh Pirates by father-son writing duo Richard and Stephen Peterson and Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work by Michael MacCambridge. The Petersons trace Pirates baseball history from the 1970s to today, including the twenty-year bump along the road. MacCambridge gives life to the man who brought the Pittsburgh Steelers to the forefront of the National Football League, but removed himself from the spotlight. This is the first comprehensive biography of Chuck Noll.  With both books, you get a newfound understanding of the…

Event dates and times:  Wednesday, Oct. 26, 4-6 p.m. University of Dayton Bookstore Marianist Hall 300 College Park Dayton, OH  45469 Free and Open to the Public – Friday October 28, 6 p.m. Barnes & Noble-South Hills 301 South Hills Village Pittsburgh, PA 15241 Free and Open to the Public – Saturday October 29, 2 p.m. Penguin Bookshop 417 Beaver St. Sewickley, PA 15143 Free and Open to the Public – BOOK LAUNCH The Life and Legacy of Chuck Noll with Pittsburgh Steelers Greats Joe Greene, Rocky Bleier, and Tunch Ilkin  Sunday October 30, 1 p.m. Heinz History Center 1212…

Chuck Noll: A Man for All Seasons In a conversation with Pittsburgh Magazine’s Mike Prisuta, MacCambridge provides a glimpse of how this long-awaited biography came to be. Book Excerpt: Head of the Class Noll’s affinity to educate — ‘Play the way you’ve been coached’ — leads to a super start. Immaculate Misconception Biographer Michael MacCambridge reveals Noll to be a thinker, a private family man, a connoisseur and a consummate leader — as four Super Bowl wins attest. View the FULL PDF.

from the new biography Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work by Michael MacCambridge To be published by University of Pittsburgh Press October 28, 2016 Chuck Noll won four Super Bowls and presided over one of the greatest football dynasties in history, the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s. But Noll was an intensely private man, never revealing much of himself, not even to the players and fans that revered him. For the first time, Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work by national sports writer Michael MacCambridge tells the compelling human story of the legendary Steelers coach. MacCambridge traces Noll’s journey from a Depression-era…