BEBEE BRYANT wrote this book for her grandchildren, Shane, Elizabeth, and Calleigh. She wanted to tell them the story of Angels life to show how decisions and events in life, no matter how small or insignificant they may seem at the time, can affect lives for many years after. Another lesson in the story of Angel is how outcomes in life can be changed by our perception and expectations we set in our minds.

No one who has seen the iconic photograph can ever forget its emotional pull: a grinning Gene Stallings, hoisted into the air at midfield in the arms of his lifelong mentor, Paul “Bear” Bryant, moments after the final gun sounded for the 1968 Cotton Bowl. Stallings’s upstart Aggies delivered an unbelievable upset of Bryant’s Crimson Tide, a team that had dominated its SEC rivals under the leadership of a young quarterback who later achieved NFL fame, Kenny “Snake” Stabler.Yet the f...