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Book SynopsisEvery community has a sports hero, but do you know who they are? Author Jeff Welsch, the Montana sports editor for Lee Newspapers, researched the record books; interviewed athletes, coaches, and local sports fans; and travelled across the state to determine each community's best athlete. The result is a one-of-a-kind sports book, Montana Greats: From A (Absarokee) to Z (Zurich), the Greatest Athletes from 264 Montana Communities.
These athletesmen and women, historic and contemporaryare the best in more than a dozen sports: football, basketball, rodeo, track, skiing, and more. Included are well-known greats such as World Series pitcher Dave McNally, who Sports Illustrated said was the best athlete to come from Montana, but the book is rich with lesser-known stories of local legends and high-school heroes.
In fact, the book is being praised for its celebration (and remembrance) of small-town sports heroes: What I love about Montana Greats is how it memorializes the small
