COACH - The Pat Burns Story by DiManno, Rosie (re: Pat Burns) - 2012

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2012. (xvi) 315 pp. Black boards lettered in silver on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white plates. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Roy MacGregor said, "Brilliant. A triumph of research, re-creations and goodl writing. She has done her work. The easy work now is the reader's - sit back, enjoy and never, ever forget." Wherever he coached, he created really good teams, even, believe ir ot not, when he coached the Toronto Maple Leafs. This includes a dropped-in sports card from 1991 Pro Set when Burns was coaching Montreal. The Contents are: Prologue: The Running Man; The Fatherless Boy; Detective Story; Adventures in the Q; A Year on Serge's Farm; Under the Montreal Microscope; So Close; Lost in Transition; Rioting Russians, Milbury Mind Games; Hoedowns and Harleys; Last Tango in Montreal; The Passion Returns; Twenty-one Games in 42 Nights; Gilmour vs Gretzky - Burns vs Melrose; Out of Gas; Locked Out and Loaded; Hitting Bottom in Leafland; Butting Heads in Beantown; Redemption in the Meadowlands; Chance and Fate; and A Surge of Affection; followed by Requiem; and an index.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.