The Story Of Hockey

Forms of hockey have been played for centuries.

Discusses the history of ice hockey in Canada and the United States from the 1800s to today, including its popularity, leagues, and notable players.

Traces the history of hockey from its crude beginnings in the 1850's to its present rank as one of North America's leading spectator sports.

Long considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide phenomenon--and has been for centuries. In Hockey: A Global History, Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman draw on twenty-five years of research to present THE monumental end-to-end history of the sport. Here is the story of on-ice stars and organizational visionaries, venues and classic games, the evolution of rules and advances in equipment, and the ascendance of corporations and instances of bureaucratic chicanery. Hardy and Holman chart modern hockey's "birthing" in Montreal and follow its migration from Canada south to the United States and east to Europe. The story then shifts from the sport's emergence as a nationalist battlefront to the movement of talent across international borders to the game of today, where men and women at all levels of play lace 'em up on the shinny ponds of Saskatchewan, the wide ice of the Olympics, and across the breadth of Asia. Sweeping in scope and vivid with detail, Hockey: A Global History is the saga of how the coolest game changed the world--and vice versa.

Four poems and seven stories on ice hockey. The story Le Rocket Negre is on the fortunes and misfortunes of a black player, a rarity in the sport, while Hockey Angels is on hockey's role in the maturing process of boys.

Legends of Hockey: The Official Book of the Hockey Hall of Fame explores the rich history of North American ice hockey through the heroic people who have played and enriched the game, and made it a part of us - exciting our passions and fueling our imaginations for over a century. This gorgeous, large-format pictorial book, created as a companion to the five-part television documentary series of the same name, and to complement the best-selling book Hockey Hall of Fame Legends: The Official Book, Legends of Hockey will take you on a visual journey through the history of ice hockey in North America. Hockey great Bobby Hull sets the tone in his foreword, and in specially commissioned interviews with renowned hockey writers Jim Coleman, Trent Frayne, Gare Joyce and Jim Taylor, honoured members of the Hockey Hall of Fame - Jean Beliveau, Johnny Bower, Red Horner, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Guy Lafleur, Teeder Kennedy, Brad Park and Red Story - tell their own stories.

Discusses the history of ice hockey, including its beginnings, popularity, leagues, and equipment.