Leatherheads of the North: The True Story of Ernie Nevers and the Duluth Eskimos
Raised a Packers fan in Greenfield, Wisconsin, on the south side of Milwaukee, Chuck Frederick is a veteran journalist of more than twenty years. A graduate of Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota, he has written for a number of Minnesota newspapers, including the Winona Daily News, the Daily Journal of International Falls, and the Duluth News Tribune. With a passion for local history, Frederick currently serves as the papers Editorial Page Editor. Frederick is the author of Spirit of the Lights (2011) Duluth: The City and the People (1994) and contributed heavily to two News Tribune book-length publications: Aerial Lift Bridge: Spanning a Century (2005) and Duluth: Then and Now (2005). He also helped pen Grandmas Marathon and Beyond (2006). His writing has garnered numerous awards and honors, anddespite living in Duluthin February 1995 he was named Citizen of the Month in neighboring Superior, Wisconsin, for a series of stories that helped a toddler receive a life-saving kidney transplant. His brief but memorable silver-screen career consists of a featured role as a race official in the 1994 film Iron Will. In addition to writing, Frederick can often be found with his family or on a softball field, in a fishing boat, leaning over a pool table, on a basketball court, or on a golf course. Still holding out hopes of being discovered by a professional baseball or basketball scout while out playing in his yard, Frederick lives in Duluths western hillside with his wife and three daughters. And although he lives in Minnesota and wrote Leatherheads of the North about Duluths historic NFL team, he still bleeds Packers green and gold. Vikings fans, try not to hold that against him.