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The Devil and Bobby Hull: How Hockey's Original Million-Dollar Man Became the Game's Lost Legend Hardcover - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Joyce, Gare


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An award-winning writer sets the record straight on hockey's forgotten golden boy--Bobby Hull

In his prime, few could dispute Bobby Hull's athletic brilliance--the first to have five 50-goal seasons, the highest scorer on the 1976 Canada Cup team, the first to use the slapshot as a scoring weapon, and the first hockey player to sign a million-dollar contract. With his body-builder torso, and his 100 mph volleys across a rink, the world of hockey glory was his to lose. And he did. With his publicized marital troubles and his defection from the NHL to the WHA, Hull's star began to fall, leaving him broke and in exile from the game. In "The Devil and Bobby Hull, " this once great hockey player and pioneer is finally given his due.

Not only are Hull's remarkable on-ice achievements finally put in perspective, so, too, are his achievements off the rink--including endorsements for a wide array of products (rare for an NHL player) and his appearance on the cover of "Sports Illustrated" a record four times. And the book details how Hull's battle with the owners of the Chicago Blackhawks--challenging the reserve clause in his contract, a move that enabled him to move to the WHA--helped other players follow him.The author places Hull squarely in the pantheon of other hockey greats, including Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr, and Wayne Gretzky--and makes the case that he is the game's most influential and important playerThis is the full, unauthorized story of Hull's life--that doesn't sidestep the controversies (including the domestic violence tainting his private life)Details Hull's recent reconciliation with the Chicago Blackhawks

A candid look at one of hockey's most gifted and controversial figures, "The Devil and Bobby Hull" tells the story of his extraordinary career and life--and why this remarkable man has not faded into oblivion.

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  • Title The Devil and Bobby Hull: How Hockey's Original Million-Dollar Man Became the Game's Lost Legend
  • Author Joyce, Gare
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 288
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Date 2011-09
  • ISBN 9781118065730

About the author

Gare Joyce has written for ESPN "The Magazine" and espn.com for the last eight years and was previously the hockey columnist with the Globe and Mail. Seven of Joyce's stories have appeared on the "notable list" in the Best American Sports Writing Series. He has won four National Magazine Awards and been a finalist 20 times in categories ranging from sports to science, politics to arts, and column-writing to memoir. Joyce is the author of six books, including "The Ovechkin Project with Damien Cox" (Wiley, 2010). His short fiction has appeared in an anthology published by Dave Eggers's McSweeney's group, and his first crime novel, The Code will be published by Penguin Canada in January 2012.
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