The Rebel League: The Short and Unruly Life of the World Hockey Association

Цена 11.44 - 17.95 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780771089497

Автор

Издатель McClelland & Stewart

Страниц 288

Год выпуска 2005

"The Rebel League" celebrates the good, the bad, and the ugly of the fabled WHA. It is filled with hilarious anecdotes, behind the scenes dealing, and simply great hockey. It tells the story of Bobby Hull"s astonishing million-dollar signing, which helped launch the league, and how he lost his toupee in an on-ice scrap.It explains how a team of naked Birmingham Bulls ended up in an arena concourse spoiling for a brawl. How the Oilers had to smuggle fugitive forward Frankie "Seldom" Beaton out of their dressing room in an equipment bag. And how Mark Howe sometimes forgot not to yell "Dad!" when he called for his teammate father, Gordie, to pass. There"s the making of Slap Shot, that classic of modern cinema, and the making of the virtuoso line of Hull, Anders Hedberg, and Ulf Nilsson. It began as the moneymaking scheme of two California lawyers. They didn"t know much about hockey, but they sure knew how to shake things up. The upstart WHA introduced to the world 27 new hockey...