THUNDER AND LIGHTNING - A No-B.S. Hockey Memoir by Esposito, Phil (with Peter Golenbock) - 2003

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2003. (x) 294 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; red endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white plates. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. This includes a dropped-in copy of the Phil Esposito 1990 Pro Set Hall of Fame trading card, number 403 in the series. The Chapters are: I Was Born in Sault Ste Marie; When I Was a Boy; In 1960 I Tried Out; At the End of the 1961-62 Season; Linda and I Got Married; The Blackhawks Had a Great Team; The Next Day I Got a Call; Harry Sinden; Those Bruins Teams; After the Hockey Season; One of the Worst Things; In July 1972; The Russians; Linda had Come to Russia; When the 1972-73 Season Began; I Was Traded; I Played in the Canada Cup; It Became too Difficult; Wayne Gretzky; After My Retirement; When I Took Over; In the Middle of the 1986-87 Season; The Tension and the Pressure; The Morning After I Was Fired; During the Summer of 1990; I Went to Jamaica; The Japanese; We Had a Lot to Do; The Tension Between Crispy and Me; During the 1993-94 Season; At the End of June 1994; In Early August 1997; and My Guess Was; followed by an index.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. Book.