The Packers, My Dad, and Me

The Green Bay Packers were in the midst of establishing themselves as a National Football League power in 1929 when John Walter took a summer job at his hometown newspaper, the Green Bay Press-Gazette. He soon would have a front-row seat to the Packers' first stretch of glory years while navigating the challenges of becoming an adult during the Great Depression.

Tony Walter, like his father a former Press-Gazette sports editor, combines his own narrative with John Walter's personal diaries a...