Joe Zagorski

Joe Zagorski is a U.S. Army veteran, a former schoolteacher, a former park ranger, and a former sportswriter for two newspapers in Pennsylvania. He is a Pro Football Writers of America (PFWA) member and the Pro Football Researchers Association (PFRA). He is also an associate member of the NFL Alumni Association. He has written three previous books, each of which deals with pro football's past.Zagorski's first book, The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade, was rated by the...See more

Joe Zagorski is a U.S. Army veteran, a former schoolteacher, a former park ranger, and a former sportswriter for two newspapers in Pennsylvania. He is a Pro Football Writers of America (PFWA) member and the Pro Football Researchers Association (PFRA). He is also an associate member of the NFL Alumni Association. He has written three previous books, each of which deals with pro football's past.Zagorski's first book, The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade, was rated by the Library Journal as one of the Top 10 Football Books in America in 2016. His second book, The Year the Packers Came Back: Green Bay's 1972 Resurgence, explored one of the most unique teams in modern NFL history. It was published 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 full-time African-American middle linebacker in pro football history. In 2021, Zagorski won the Pro Football Researchers Association's Ralph Hay Award for Lifetime Achievement for Pro Football Research and Historiography. Also, in 2021, he finished writing his first screenplay, entitled Town Teams.Zagorski was born and raised in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He currently lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. See less