The devil and Bobby Hull : how hockey's original million-dollar man became the game's lost legend / Gare Joyce.

The devil and Bobby Hull : how hockey's original million-dollar man became the game's lost legend / Gare Joyce.

By
Joyce, Gare.

Publication Date
2011

Publication Information
Toronto : Wiley & Sons,

Physical Description
[274] p. : ill.

Subject Term
Hockey players -- Biography.

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

Language
English

ISBN
9781118065730

General Note
Includes index.


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