Father Ted Hesburgh: He Coached Me

ISBN-13: 9781629374734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str.

Tim Bourret; Digger Phelps

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The University of Notre Dame is a special place, regarded by many as the world's top Catholic institution of higher learning. Yet its modern reputation for excellence and service--in the classroom, the community, and from the student-athletes fortunate enough to don the blue and gold--forms just part of the legacy of Father Theodore Hesburgh, the university's president from 1952 to 1987. Father Ted's influence extended beyond Notre Dame's campus in Northern Indiana. He worked with presidents, Popes, and Martin Luther King, Jr., and his guidance resulted in nuclear nonproliferation, immigration reform, and civil rights legislation. One of the many Domers influenced by Father Ted was Richard -Digger- Phelps, Notre Dame's men's basketball coach from 1971 to 1991. Phelps, who continued living near the Notre Dame campus even after moving on from coaching to national broadcasting, became friends with Father Hesburgh during their years working together and into Father Hesburgh's later years, often sharing an Italian dinner at Parisi's Restaurant in South Bend and hours-long conversations in Father Hesburgh's office atop the library that bears his name. In Father Ted Hesburgh: He Coached Me, Phelps gives readers a seat at the table with Father Ted, from the basketball locker room in the 1970s to Father Ted's final Mass before he passed away in 2015. Digger explains how a private conversation with Father Ted led the coach to spearhead an effort to renovate South Bend's public school facilities, and later to rebuild homes and a high school in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Digger also shares Father Ted's -Starting Five, - those who most impacted his life and career. Father Ted Hesburgh: He Coached Me is an intimate portrait of an unlikely friendship and a rare look at the private moments of a man Digger often describes as -a living saint.-