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Rebel League : The Short And Unruly Side Of The World Hockey Association, Pap...
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- ISBN
- 9780771089497
- Book Title
- Rebel League : the Short and Unruly Life of the World Hockey Association
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Hockey, Business Aspects, History
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 11 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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The wildest seven years in the history of hockey The Rebel League celebrates the good, the bad, and the ugly of the fabled WHA. It is filled with hilarious anecdotes, behind the scenes dealing, and simply great hockey. It tells the story of Bobby Hull's astonishing million-dollar signing, which helped launch the league, and how he lost his toupee in an on-ice scrap.It explains how a team of naked Birmingham Bulls ended up in an arena concourse spoiling for a brawl. How the Oilers had to smuggle fugitive forward Frankie "Seldom" Beaton out of their dressing room in an equipment bag. And how Mark Howe sometimes forgot not to yell "Dad " when he called for his teammate father, Gordie, to pass. There's the making of Slap Shot , that classic of modern cinema, and the making of the virtuoso line of Hull, Anders Hedberg, and Ulf Nilsson. It began as the moneymaking scheme of two California lawyers. They didn't know much about hockey, but they sure knew how to shake things up. The upstart WHA introduced to the world 27 new hockey franchises, a trail of bounced cheques, fractious lawsuits, and folded teams. It introduced the crackpots, goons, and crazies that are so well remembered as the league's bizarre legacy. But the hit-and-miss league was much more than a travelling circus of the weird and wonderful. It was the vanguard that drove hockey into the modern age. It ended the NHL's monopoly, freed players from the reserve clause, ushered in the 18-year-old draft, moved the game into the Sun Belt, and put European players on the ice in numbers previously unimagined. The rebel league of the WHA gave shining stars their big-league debut and others their swan song, and provided high-octane fuel for some spectacular flameouts. By the end of its seven years, there were just six teams left standing, four of which - the Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques, Edmonton Oilers, and Hartford Whalers - would wind up in the expanded NHL.
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Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
ISBN-10
077108949x
ISBN-13
9780771089497
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038819167
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rebel League : the Short and Unruly Life of the World Hockey Association
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Hockey, Business Aspects, History
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
11 Oz
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Reviews
"A must-read for hockey fans." - Canadian Press "A book fuelled by the fumes of the WHA's audacity, reckless hope, violence, and economic hilarity. . . . A highly entertaining tale." - Globe and Mail, "A must-read for hockey fans." --"Canadian Press "A book fuelled by the fumes of the WHA's audacity, reckless hope, violence, and economic hilarity. . . . A highly entertaining tale." --"Globe and Mail, "A must-read for hockey fans." -Canadian Press "A book fuelled by the fumes of the WHA's audacity, reckless hope, violence, and economic hilarity. . . . A highly entertaining tale." -Globe and Mail, "A must-read for hockey fans." --"Canadian Press" "A book fuelled by the fumes of the WHA's audacity, reckless hope, violence, and economic hilarity. . . . A highly entertaining tale." --"Globe and Mail"
Dewey Decimal
796.962/64
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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Yes
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