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Willie - The Game-Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player (Hardcover)
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Willie - The Game-Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player (Hardcover)
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An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams
if they are willing to fight for them. In 1958, Willie O'Ree was a
lot like any other player toiling in the minors. He was good. Good
enough to have been signed by the Boston Bruins. Just not quite
good enough to play in the NHL. Until January 18 of that year.
O'Ree was finally called up, and when he stepped out onto the ice
against the Montreal Canadiens, not only did he fulfil the
childhood dream he shared with so many other Canadian kids, he did
something that had never been done before. He broke hockey's colour
barrier. Just as his hero, Jackie Robinson, had done for baseball.
In that pioneering first NHL game, O'Ree proved that no one could
stop him from being a hockey player. But he soon learned that he
could never be just a hockey player. He would always be a black
player, with all that entails. There were ugly name-calling and
stick-swinging incidents, and nights when the Bruins had to be
escorted to their bus by the police. But O'Ree never backed down.
When he retired in 1979, he had played hundreds of games as a pro,
and scored hundreds of goals, his boyhood dreams more than
accomplished. In 2018, O'Ree was inducted into the Hockey Hall of
Fame in recognition not only of that legacy, but of the way he has
built on it in the decades since. He has been, for twenty years
now, an NHL Executive and has helped the NHL Diversity program
expose more than 40,000 boys and girls of diverse backgrounds to
unique hockey experiences. Inspiring, frank, and shot through with
the kind of understated courage and decency required to change the
world, Willie is a story for anyone willing to persevere for a
dream.
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