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Gordie: A Hockey Legend
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by Roy MacSkimming
Sales Rank: 685836
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 224 pages
Published by: Greystone BooksEdition: 2nd Edition August 6, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1550547194
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1550547191
Book Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 13 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
For longevity, no athlete in a contact sport has matched hockey's Gordie Howe, who played professionally as a right wing for 35 years, with a two-season hiatus, from age 17 to 52. In that career, spent mostly with the Detroit Red Wings, he set dozens of records, but the most noteworthy are the scoring of 801 goals in regular season play, winning the trophy for most valuable player six times, being named to NHL all-star teams 21 times and playing on the same squad as two of his sons. Born in 1928, and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, one of nine children of a poor family, Howe was preternaturally shy as a child and not much less so as an adult. He started to skate and play hockey before he was six and was recognized as an outstanding talent in his early teens. MacSkimming (On Your Own Again) spends too many words trying to prove that Howe was better than Maurice Richard and Wayne Gretzky, but this unauthorized bio will still have wide appeal for hockey fans. Photos.
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From Booklist
Long before Gretsky, Messier, and even before the original Hull, there was a big, raw-boned kid from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, who was the most celebrated hockey player of his era. Amazingly, his era began in 1946 with the Detroit Red Wings and ended 34 years and 32 seasons later with the Hartford Whalers. When Gordie Howe retired, he was 52 and still an effective National Hockey League player. In between, he led the league in goals scored five times and in points six times, was a 12-time all-star, and claimed six Most Valuable Player awards. MacSkimming approached Howe about an authorized biography but instead went forward with this unauthorized version. No matter. It's far superior to the hero-worshiping, gee-whiz, then-we-played, ghostwritten autobiographies so popular today, but at the same time, it never strays into Kitty Kelly territory. Howe has his darker side: there were plenty of on- and off-ice battles with coaches and owners. MacSkimming reports them all, but he also captures Howe's sense of fun and makes it clear that the man lived to play hockey. Howe's enthusiasm for the game is omnipresent, from his very poor childhood with borrowed skates and makeshift sticks to his later years when he came out of a two-year retirement to play with his son in the upstart World Hockey Association. Must reading for hockey fans. Wes Lukowsky
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Reader Reviews
This review is from: Gordie: A Hockey Legend: An Unauthorized Biography of Gordie Howe (Paperback)
As a lifetime fan of the Detroit Red Wings, I was overjoyed when I found that there is a recent biography of Howe that is much more up to date than many written in the 60's and 70's. This book gives the reader an inside look at what it was like to get into the NHL in the 50's, and what it took to stay there and become a star. Mackskimming is very candid when talking about the front office's team management "politics" The reader also gets an up-close look at other great stars of the era such as Red Kelly, Ted Linsay, Maurice "Rocket" Richard, and coach Jack Adams. A must read for any TRUE hockey fan.
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