Hockey Card Stories 2
59 More True Tales from Your Favourite Players
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A follow-up to the 2014 national bestseller Hockey Card Stories, Ken Reid’s new offering presents 59 more stories about your favorite hockey cards from the players themselves. Hockey Card Stories 2 will take you all the way back to the 1960s and right up to the Hockey Card Boom of the 1990s. How did Eric Lindros handle being at the center of the 1990s rookie-card craze? Ever wonder why one tough guy’s Upper Deck card looks more like a High School yearbook picture than a sports card? Of course, once again, there are glorious mullets, errors, and broken noses. There’s even the story of how a rhinoceros and a Hall of Famer ended up on a card together. And as a special bonus, Ken Reid reveals the story behind the chase for his greatest hockey card.
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Early in his love letter to the hockey cards of his youth, Sportsnet anchor Reid gets the scoop on a 1981-82 Paul Baxter card how he lead the NHL in penalty minutes, and why he looks so ornery on the card itself. It turns out the book is as much for the author as the reader: "I, for one, understand why I've always been obsessed with this simple-looking hockey card. It turns out there is quite a story behind it." There are few rabbit holes that Reid didn't go down, hunting some incredibly obscure names (hello Chuck Luska!) and some big game (Orr, Potvin, both Esposito brothers). Readers will find themselves continually flipping back to the page with the reproduction of the hockey card. What the reader won't do is plunk down on the couch and read it in one sitting, as the stories, while well-written and entertaining, are repetitive consumed one after another. Another flaw can be solved with a sequel these are all players from the 1970s to the early 1990s, leaving open the question whether or not today's NHLers love their cards the way their predecessors did.
