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Orr, October 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
My Story
Putnam
October 2013
On Sale: October 15, 2013
304 pages ISBN: 0399161759 EAN: 9780399161759 Kindle: B00AYJIL9O Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
One of the greatest sports figures of all time breaks his
silence in a memoir as unique as the man himself.
He has never written a memoir, authorized a
biography, or talked to journalists about his past, but now
he is finally ready to tell his story. Bobby Orr
is often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game
of hockey. From 1966 through the mid-seventies, he could
change a game just by stepping on the ice. No defenseman had
ever played the way he did, or received so many trophies, or
set so many records, several of which still stand today.
But all the brilliant achievements leave unsaid as
much as they reveal. They don’t tell what inspired Orr, what
drove him, what it was like for a shy small-town kid to
suddenly land in the full glare of the media. They don’t
tell what it was like when the agent he regarded as a
brother betrayed him and left him in financial ruin. They
don’t tell what he thinks of the game of hockey today.
He is speaking out now because “I am a parent and a
grandparent and I believe that I have lessons worth passing
on.” Orr: My Story is more than a book about
hockey—it is about the making of a man.
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