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GREEN BAY — Growing up in New Freedom, Pennsylvania, Ron Wolf didn’t think his life would ever merit a book.

He wasn’t even sure it did after everything he accomplished in professional football, from resurrecting the Green Bay Packers once-proud franchise from its years of ineptitude, to assembling the roster that won Super Bowl XXXI, to being enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015.

“I asked more than a few people, ‘Would this be something people would be interested in here?’” Wolf said.

In the end, enough of them told Wolf that his football life story needed to be told that he agreed to collaborate with longtime Wisconsin sports columnist Michael Bauman on “Ron Wolf and the Green Bay Packers: Mike Holmgren, Brett Favre, Reggie White, and the Pack's Return to Glory in the 1990s.”

The wordy title notwithstanding, the book is really Wolf’s biography, and it’s chock full of anecdotes and behind-the-scenes details of what he did to transform the Packers into an annual contender during his decade as the team’s general manager — from trading for quarterback Brett Favre, to signing defensive end Reggie White in free agency and assembling the 1996 roster that ended the franchise’s 29-year championship drought.