Proposed Children's Book Project: Profiles of Great Scholar-Athletes in U.S. History

One children's book project that I would love to contribute toward, if I ever find a book publisher that likes the idea, is a children's book offering wholesome profiles and mini-biographical accounts about 50 to 100 selected great Scholar-Athletes from American history.

A wide variety of female scholar-athletes and of male scholar-athletes could be profiled in the proposed new children's book.

The proposed book would contain numerous photographs and sketches to help convey to youths the sublime beauty and dynamic appeal of a life devoted to earnest excellence in sports and in athletics---including during one's early childhood and teenage years.

The proposed new book could particularly highlight the varsity college athletes---
including 1970s quarterback and Rhodes scholar Pat Hayden of the University of Southern California's varsity football team, which was coached in those days by Pat Hayden's father---who have each earned academic awards or made noteworthy intellectual contributions.

The proposed new children's book would encourage all youths to strive for a healthy balance between achievement in athletics and achievement in academics. In this way, those young persons can achieve a wise equilibrium helps to sustain them throughout their entire life, including during their retirement years.

The proposed children's book might even offer biographical information about achievements in athletics and intellectual pursuits that many of the profiled scholar-athletes have achieved during later periods of their life---during their middle-aged or senior-citizen years, for instance.

Also included in this proposed new book might be a brief history of the "scholar-athlete" ideal in world history. Factual information might be provided about the role of the scholar-athlete in ancient Greece, for instance.

The proposed new children's book might also include factual information from medical physicians about why physically fitness strengthens a human being's ability to achieve academically. The close relationship between physical fitness and mental healthiness would be explored at length in the proposed new children's book.

I am hopeful that the proposed new children's book would also help to inspire the establishment of many additional financial scholarships, financial awards, and financial grants for primary-level and secondary-level students, as well as for college students or graduate students, that financially reward many of those young persons in a very generous manner for their own personal devotion to achievement in athletics as well as in academics or intellectual pursuits.