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  • Joe Ziemba
  • Recognized as one of the leading authorities on the history of professional football in the country, Joe Ziemba is the award-winning author of the books "When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL" and "Cadets, Cannons, and Legends: The Football History of Morgan Park Military Academy." A life-long resident of the south side of Chicago, Joe first became interested in the history of pro football after discovering that his father was a draft choice of the Chicago (now Arizona) Cardinals in the 1940s. Because of his knowledge of the early days of the professional game, Joe has been a resource for articles or reports in Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Southtown, NBC Sunday Night Football, and many others. Joe has appeared on the WGN documentary “Football in Chicago,” a Comcast Sports special on the Chicago Bears, as well as on radio stations such as WBBM and WSCR in Chicago. In October of 2018, he was the featured guest on the telecast of “Beyond the Game” in White Plains, NY.
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