The Best Heroes

When a young boy attends the 1962 National Football League Championship Game with his father, he can hardly believe his eyes as his beloved New York Giants go through their warm-up drills on the field. But throughout the game, bitterly cold winds cut through the crowd at Yankee Stadium, and the Giants struggle against the mighty Green Bay Packers. The Best Heroes is a true story about the enduring grasp of a parent's love - and how real heroes are often closer than we think.

Doug Kauffmann is the retired pastor of the Connie Maxwell Children's Home in Greenwood, South Carolina, where he and his wife, Sally, served for twenty years. Sally worked as the minister of music and education. Doug teaches at Lander University in Greenwood as an adjunct professor in religion. He is author of Tobias's Story: The Life and Civil War Career of Colonel Tobias B. Kaufman, 2nd Edition.

Cherry Smith teaches preschool in Greenwood, South Carolina. A visual arts graduate of Lander University, she speaks at schools and libraries and is the author and illustrator of Juniper Jupiter: World's Greatest Juggler, and Sleepwalk Jones.